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sweatshop

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sweatshop (plural sweatshops)

A factory or other place of work where pay is low and conditions are poor or even illegal. [from 1892]

Source: en.wiktionary.org

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We need not only open trading systems, but systems that work for people around the world - taking into account not only the bottom line, but the well-being of working men and women, the protection of children against sweatshop labor, and the protection of the environment. Al Gore

According to the Department of Labor, the definition of a sweatshop is a factory that violates two or more U.S. labor laws. Source: Internet

It also probably seems logical that marooned, jobless foreign students should be able to "draw on their savings" whilst the sweatshop kitchens that employ them are closed due to the virus. Source: Internet

Any actual words set in print were outsourced to an Indonesian freelance sweatshop who were instructed to defame Obama and anyone liberal at least once every 15 words. Source: Internet

Canada slightly improves in my esteem after its ketchup-related crimes by moving in a very positive direction on holding its corporations accountable for sweatshop labor overseas. Source: Internet

His older brother worked in a sweatshop assembling shirts. Source: Internet

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