Much of New York's Garment District, once

Usage examples of sweatshops.

Narrow alleys and squares lay a few yards behind teeming streets, but it was a different world of pawnbrokers, brothels, sweatshops, and crowded tenements smelling of middens and rotting timber.

Kids whose parents are being exploited in sweatshops and factories and coal mines.

A socialist in her chat group had told Martha that the consortium exploited her, just like the old days when sweatshops used to cheat the women who sewed piecework at home.