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What (who) is sweat shop - definition

WORKPLACE THAT HAS SOCIALLY UNACCEPTABLE WORKING CONDITIONS
Sweat shop; Sweated labour; Sweatshops; Sweat-shop; Sweating system; Sweating System; Sweat shops; Sweat-shops; Sweatshop free
  • WPA]]'s National Research Project (1937)
  • Members of United Students Against Sweatshops marching in protest
  • A sweatshop in a New York tenement building, c. 1889

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¦ noun a factory or workshop employing sweated labour.
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also sweat shop (sweatshops)
If you describe a small factory as a sweatshop, you mean that many people work there in poor conditions for low pay.
N-COUNT [disapproval]

Wikipedia

Sweatshop

A sweatshop or sweat factory is a crowded workplace with very poor, socially unacceptable or illegal working conditions. Some illegal working conditions include poor ventilation, little to no breaks, inadequate work space, insufficient lighting, or uncomfortably/dangerously high or low temperatures. The work may be difficult, tiresome, dangerous, climatically challenging or underpaid. Workers in sweatshops may work long hours with unfair wages, regardless of laws mandating overtime pay or a minimum wage; child labor laws may also be violated. Women make up 85 to 90% of sweatshop workers and may be forced by employers to take birth control and routine pregnancy tests to avoid supporting maternity leave or providing health benefits. The Fair Labor Association's "2006 Annual Public Report" inspected factories for FLA compliance in 18 countries including Bangladesh, El Salvador, Colombia, Guatemala, Malaysia, Thailand, Tunisia, Turkey, China, India, Vietnam, Honduras, Indonesia, Brazil, Mexico, and the US. The U.S. Department of Labor's "2015 Findings on the Worst Forms of Child Labor" found that "18 countries did not meet the International Labour Organization's recommendation for an adequate number of inspectors."

Examples of use of sweat shop
1. The magnitude of this injustice looms far greater in my mind than children having to labour in sweat–shop conditions in training–shoe factories.
2. "As we have begun a new genre of television with the increasing use of small production companies that are for the most part non union, the genre has developed a new meaning to the concept of sweat–shop," says WGA spokeswoman Cheryl Rhoden.
3. Why the heck not, are we not allowed to wear something twice anymore? – Bonny, Argyll This appears on the same page as an article about teachers learning in an Indian sweat shop that their throwaway attitude is selfish? – Amanda, England Why is it a faux pas?
4. The study by the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions (ICFTU), timed to coincide with next week‘s WTO ministerial conference in Hong Kong, says that China is becoming the sweat shop of the world as large numbers of agricultural and former state enterprise workers chase work in the cities, depressing wages.