Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A shop or factory in which employees work long hours at low wages under poor conditions.
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- noun a
factory or other place of work where pay is low and conditions are poor or even illegal.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun factory where workers do piecework for poor pay and are prevented from forming unions; common in the clothing industry
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Examples
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To these people, unbelievable as it sounds to us spoiled Western civilization kids, the sweatshop is a positive force in their lives.
Nailed! with_gusto 2004
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After consulting Webster's Dictionary, I discovered that "sweatshop" is in fact part of standard English, and not slang.
Boing Boing: February 11, 2001 - February 17, 2001 Archives 2001
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It has created a new capitalist class, a burgeoning middle class, and an urban proletariat that lives relatively better in sweatshop conditions than in rural destitution.
Robert Kuttner: Trade War Is Here -- and We've Disarmed Robert Kuttner 2010
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What the people who work for Bluewater are doing is working in sweatshop conditions hoping for a pat on the back and an extra bottle of water at the end of the day.
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It has created a new capitalist class, a burgeoning middle class, and an urban proletariat that lives relatively better in sweatshop conditions than in rural destitution.
Robert Kuttner: Trade War Is Here -- and We've Disarmed Robert Kuttner 2010
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It has created a new capitalist class, a burgeoning middle class, and an urban proletariat that lives relatively better in sweatshop conditions than in rural destitution.
Robert Kuttner: Trade War Is Here -- and We've Disarmed Robert Kuttner 2010
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Authorities say many Chinese are working in sweatshop-like conditions that break European laws, and that many businesses don't pay taxes.
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It has created a new capitalist class, a burgeoning middle class, and an urban proletariat that lives relatively better in sweatshop conditions than in rural destitution.
Robert Kuttner: Trade War Is Here -- and We've Disarmed Robert Kuttner 2010
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It sounds harsh, but the worst sweatshop is probably a lot better than what most Haitians have at present.
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It has created a new capitalist class, a burgeoning middle class, and an urban proletariat that lives relatively better in sweatshop conditions than in rural destitution.
Robert Kuttner: Trade War Is Here -- and We've Disarmed Robert Kuttner 2010
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