sweatshop
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3.8
- noun
- /ˈswɛtʃɑp/
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taller de explotación
- The clothing brand was criticized for using sweatshops to manufacture their products at the expense of workers' well-being.
- sweatshop labor
- sweatshop workers
- sweatshop conditions
Fast fashion clothes are sewn in in in workshops that are basically sweatshops.
- Fast fashion clothes are sewn in in in workshops that are basically sweatshops.
- Even the most challenging problems of modern society, such as the slum and the sweatshop, were considered realities, if unwanted ones, of city life.
- Like then there's pogroms and a World War and you are refugees and you work in sweatshops and you don't speak English.
- There was no training, there was no workshop, sweatshop, there was no education.
- All right, all right, final controversial subject sweatshops.
- Same is true for apples or sweatshops, textile worker meals in California.
- We aren't keeping some people at the back of the room, some people in the sweatshops, other people's picking, picking fruit.
Examples
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Many consumers are unaware that their clothes are often produced in sweatshops where workers face harsh conditions.
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His vision of a vertically integrated, sweatshop-free company was realized in downtown Los Angeles in 1997.
Blog text (22) -
We're above a sweatshop, no AC, not even fans?
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We're in the sweatshop all day until 12 noon.
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I feel like I'm back In the sweatshop In Tegucigalpa.
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This is a sweatshop.
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Nonetheless, workers in sweatshops still suffer widespread violations on a daily basis.
Academic text (2003) -
Products sold by Nike, Wal-Mart, and The Gap have reportedly been made with sweatshop labor.
Academic text (2006) -
Students lobbied their universities to sever business ties with companies that employed sweatshop labor.
Academic text (2001) -
Activists are fighting for the rights of workers in sweatshops to secure better wages and safer environments.
How Exploitative
Surface Forms
Morphology
sweatshop = sweat + shop (semi-transparent) = sweat + shop
The compound is literally 'sweat' + 'shop' and suggests a place where workers sweat, but the socio-economic sense 'exploitative workplace with low pay and poor conditions' is a conventionalized extension not fully predictable for all learners.
Etymology
Sweatshop comes from sweat ('to work very hard') and shop ('place of work'). So, a sweatshop is a factory or workshop where people are made to work very hard for very little pay and often in unsafe conditions.