Factory where workers do piecework for poor pay and are prevented from forming unions

Usage examples of sweatshop.

Brother Tommy was manager of the factory, Gertie the long-serving chargehand who had worked in East End sweatshops as a girl and spent twenty-four years in the civilized conditions estab lished by Sammy, Tommy and Boots.

They slandered him in trade newspapers, characterizing him as a Dickensian monster out to create a sweatshop based on management by intimidation.

The Statue of Franchise stood on her rock at the point of Hightown, as proud as a pennywhistle, but we stayed close to the Eastside shore, where the sparse cottages and meager yards competed for space with the ever-growing menace of commercial docks, sweatshops and polluted air.

Paulette was given the task of finding three or four additional paralegals to work in the Sweatshop.

The Sweatshop had grown to twelve paralegals, all up to their ears in files and paperwork.

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.

It was early in the day, so the place was almost empty, apart from a fat lady buying a box of pista barfi and jalebis, a couple of bachelor garment workers drinking chaloo chai and an elderly Polish woman from the old days when it was the Jews who ran the sweatshops round here, who sat all day in a corner with two vegetable samosas, one pun and a glass of milk, announcing to everyone who came in that she was only there because "it was next best to kosher and today you must do the best you can".

During the previous five years, a sweatshop of catalogers had begun to transfer the catalog into a computer system, and the Administration hoped that ten percent of the catalog could be salvaged in this way.

Even the money paid to the most passionate nurses, the dreamiest artists, freshly printed, very dry, and shallowly embossed to the fingertips, had its origins in some bastardy on the sweatshop floor.

The large firms are infamous for being sweatshops where the associates are flooded with tedious research and locked away in some library for the first three years.

I want to mention these things because they all happened in that city that was no place exactly, that was part of no country because it was all countries, and because now if you go there you’ll see modern high-rises, amnesiac boulevards, teeming sweatshops, a NATO headquarters, and a sign that says Izmir .

Whorehouses, strip joints, sweatshops, even as indentured servants.

In torture chambers, in concentration camps, in trenches dug for the conduct of war, there were real and actual and loathsome hells, as there were in the worst kinds of housing projects, the worst kinds of sweatshops, the worst kinds of ghettos, the worst kinds of prisons and the worst kinds of insane asylums.