sweatshop
A factory or other place of work where pay is low and conditions are poor or even illegalA factory or other place of work where pay is low and conditions are poor or even illegal.
» Don't buy products made in sweatshops.
Meaning
1 sensesA factory or other place of work where pay is low and conditions are poor or even illegal.
Sweatshop, Ausbeutungsbetrieb
потого́нкаpotogónka, потогонное произво́дствоpotogonnoje proizvódstvo, галераgalera
factory where workers do piecework for poor pay and are prevented from forming unions; common in the clothing industry
Examples
7 sentencesDon't buy products made in sweatshops.
Why do you buy things made in sweatshops?
Mary only buys sweatshop-free clothing.
I should quit this sweatshop job and move to a good company.
Name one example of capitalism working without slavery, prison labor, or sweatshops.
Translations
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Origin
From sweat (“to extract money, labour, etc.”, verb) + shop.From sweat (“to extract money, labour, etc.”, verb) + shop.
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