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sweatshop Definition

sweat·shop (-s̸häp′)

noun

a shop where employees work long hours at low wages under poor working conditions

sweatshop Usage Examples

Preposition: of

  • century: Download PDF Call centers have been dubbed ' sweatshops of the 21st century ' .

Adjective modifier

  • Asian: This week's writer, Robin Mukherjee, draws his main plot from the sensitive issue of child labor in an Asian sweatshop.
  • Chinese: Now want a cheap second box which is more than likely made in a chinese sweatshop.
  • electronic: Some have described call centers as the electronic sweatshops of the twenty-first century.
  • modern: But they don't have to be modern day sweatshops.

Modifies a noun

  • labor: We offer an alternative to mass produced, chemically infused, and sweatshop labor products.
  • labor: You can go on a roving picket, or tour of shame of shops that sell goods made by sweatshop labor.
  • worker: The most moving section of the book is based on Pilger's investigation into sweatshop workers in Indonesia.
  • condition: Fashion & Style: Cool to Be Kind The politics of T-shirts is about more than slogans; many are made in sweatshop conditions.
  • factory: Some are soldiers, some are in sweatshop factories and in some countries girls have no education at all.
  • owner: The sweatshop owner, often an immigrant himself, is usually " the most innocent one in the supply chain, " he says.

Noun used with modifier

  • garment: Working for garment sweatshops in Merseyside he was always desperately home sick, particularly for Vietnamese food.
  • clothing: Bacton Fashions itself was located in an industrial unit along with other clothing sweatshops.
  • third-world: FP: So what you're saying, fundamentally, is that the solution to the industry's problems is... third-world sweatshop labor?
  • factory: Those in the home sweatshop must work cheaper than those in the factory sweatshops.
  • world: Much more manufacturing will be done in third world sweatshops.
  • day: But they don't have to be modern day sweatshops.