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What (who) is sweatshop - 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

sweatshop         
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]
sweatshop         
¦ noun a factory or workshop employing sweated labour.
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.

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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 sweatshop
1. It may look a bit like a sweatshop but the women here seem happy enough.
2. "Trafficked women are usually forced into sex work, domestic or sweatshop labour," the report said.
3. "It was like a sweatshop," says Felix Miller, 30, one of the founders.
4. While the shopfloor work looks crippling, the conditions buck the stereotype of the sweatshop.
5. Our findings should not be interpreted to mean that sweatshop jobs in the third world are ideal by US standards.