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Recent Examples of sweatshop
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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Recent Examples of Synonyms for sweatshop
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Lenora Chu Machinist Lothar Herrmann poses at the VW factory complex in Braunschweig in late November.—
Lenora Chu,
The Christian Science Monitor,
27 Jan. 2025
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First, both Hawthorne's main character Hester Prynne and factory worker Sarah Cornell were known for their needlework and charity.—
Melissa Gray,
NPR,
26 Jan. 2025
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All in all, the benefits of companion plants really boil down to the individual growing characteristics of the plants incorporated, how each of those plants interacts with their growing environment, and how other plants can utilize those characteristics and interactions.—
Anthony Reardon,
Kansas City Star,
24 Jan. 2025
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There already have been various projects to explore possibilities of growing plants and fermenting foods in space but the actual fermentation with Koji mold in space is novel.—
Akiko Katayama,
Forbes,
24 Jan. 2025
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The 147,000 square-foot space — a turn-of-the-century textile mill involved in the manufacturing of the first Spanx shapewear — was originally owned by Highland Park Manufacturing Company.—
Jessica Swannie,
Charlotte Observer,
17 Jan. 2025
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For these costumes, Lovaas sourced from mills in the American South but also in the U.K.—
Caroline Reilly,
Robb Report,
15 Jan. 2025
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Advertisement Immigrants rights groups are bracing for widespread roundups and expulsions, holding legal workshops up and down the state in a bid to aid residents who might be stopped by federal authorities.—
Rachel Uranga,
Los Angeles Times,
19 Jan. 2025
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Three workshops have already been completed on the topics of digital marketing in Spanish, minority certification training and financial training in Spanish.—
Michael Butler,
Miami Herald,
18 Jan. 2025
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“Sweatshop.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sweatshop. Accessed 31 Jan. 2025.
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