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Sweatshop   /swˈɛtʃˌɑp/   Listen
Sweatshop

noun
1.
Factory where workers do piecework for poor pay and are prevented from forming unions; common in the clothing industry.





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"Sweatshop" Quotes from Famous Books



... things. I'm going to show New York how to run a sweatshop—you wait and see—the most wages and the least sweat—and the girls happier and safer than in their own homes. The missus and I were planning to bolt to a new place and begin life all over. That was foolish. I'd always feel like a coward. Don't forget that old ...
— The Penalty • Gouverneur Morris
... The sweatshop at mid-day—I'll draw you the picture: A battlefield bloody; the conflict at rest; Around and about me the corpses are lying; The blood cries aloud from the earth's gory breast. A moment... and hark! The loud signal is sounded, The dead rise again and renewed is the fight... ...
— Songs of Labor and Other Poems • Morris Rosenfeld


Words linked to "Sweatshop" :   factory, manufactory, manufacturing plant, mill


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