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US
/ˈswɛtˌʃɑp/
]
[ UK /swˈɛtʃɒp/ ]
[ UK /swˈɛtʃɒp/ ]
NOUN
- factory where workers do piecework for poor pay and are prevented from forming unions; common in the clothing industry
How To Use sweatshop In A Sentence
- A US garment factory where workers are unionized is not likely to be a sweatshop.
- fugitives from the sweatshops
- Today there are similar stirrings in the antisweatshop, fair-trade and immigrant rights movements.
- Women staff the maquiladoras and the sweatshops that produce the cheap goods of the global economy.
- Hundreds of other Asian women are believed to be virtually imprisoned in similar conditions in illegal clothing sweatshops.
- He was forced to insist that the iPad is not made in sweatshops, and began to define the term absurdly, comparing his factories with AlterNet.org Main RSS Feed
- It is an attempt to preserve fairly-paid jobs in Europe, and to prevent chain stores reducing prices by buying from countries that accept sweatshops and sweated labour.
- If we listen to some of the speeches from the other side of the House, we get the impression that some of these workshops are sweatshops.
- Thus, the fight against sweatshops is defined in this context as a struggle for physical improvement of workplaces.
- The program featured images of women and children working long hours in sweatshops making sneakers.