sweatshop
noun
sweat·shop
ˈswet-ˌshäp 
: a shop or factory in which employees work for long hours at low wages and under unhealthy conditions
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From mafia style business practices to sweatshop labor, not to even mention the environmental costs.
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Dana Taylor, USA TODAY, 22 Feb. 2024
Festival laurels aside, the full 10.5-hour deep-dive into Middle Kingdom sweatshops has also plugged local producers into a more global circuit.
—Ben Croll, Variety, 7 Sep. 2024
But unethical sweatshop labor and highly polluting international shipping suck even worse.
—Wes Siler, Outside Online, 2 Sep. 2024
Roadside Attractions has in 774 locations the political hot-button border crisis movie, City of Dreams about a boy whose dreams of becoming a soccer star are shattered when he’s smuggled from Mexico and sold to a sweatshop in downtown Los Angeles.
—Anthony D'alessandro, Deadline, 1 Sep. 2024
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Dana Taylor, USA TODAY, 22 Feb. 2024
Festival laurels aside, the full 10.5-hour deep-dive into Middle Kingdom sweatshops has also plugged local producers into a more global circuit.
—Ben Croll, Variety, 7 Sep. 2024
But unethical sweatshop labor and highly polluting international shipping suck even worse.
—Wes Siler, Outside Online, 2 Sep. 2024
Roadside Attractions has in 774 locations the political hot-button border crisis movie, City of Dreams about a boy whose dreams of becoming a soccer star are shattered when he’s smuggled from Mexico and sold to a sweatshop in downtown Los Angeles.
—Anthony D'alessandro, Deadline, 1 Sep. 2024
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sweatshop
noun
sweat·shop
-ˌshäp
: a shop or factory in which employees work long hours at low wages under unhealthy conditions
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