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  • noun Plural form of sweatshop.

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Examples

  • Yes, it is true that people working in what we call sweatshops earn atrocious wages by our standards.

    Forbes.com: News Art Carden 2011

  • Sweatshop experts Benjamin Powell and David Skarbek have presented evidence suggesting that what we call "sweatshops" are the best of a lot of bad situations.

    Forbes.com: News Art Carden 2011

  • For us, they toiled in sweatshops and settled the West; endured the lash of the whip and plowed the hard earth.

    44 Tyler 2009

  • All of the veggies I know drive cars, buy clothes and computers and everything else made in sweatshops, buy soda from soda companies that own fast food companies that kill animals, etc. So?

    I Think What? 2009

  • Kinda like the urban hippies wearing T-Shirts saying “Save the Whales” that were made in sweatshops in the Phillipines.

    Matthew Yglesias » Not in Vermont’s Back Yard 2010

  • For us, they toiled in sweatshops and settled the West; endured the lash of the whip and plowed the hard earth.

    Archive 2009-01-18 Tyler 2009

  • So many Americans have gleefully addicted themselves to thrallmart's cheap commodities; what happens when the semi tractor trailers no longer disgorge their contents of plastic dinguses created in sweatshops abroad?

    He Said Wal-Mart, She Said Target 2009

  • All of the veggies I know drive cars, buy clothes and computers and everything else made in sweatshops, buy soda from soda companies that own fast food companies that kill animals, etc.

    I Think What? 2009

  • So many Americans have gleefully addicted themselves to thrallmart's cheap commodities; what happens when the semi tractor trailers no longer disgorge their contents of plastic dinguses created in sweatshops abroad?

    He Said Wal-Mart, She Said Target 2009

  • The hope is that the amnesty will change the fortunes of those working in sweatshops that cash in on illegal immigrants for example – a crude reality in São Paulo.

    Global Voices in English » Brazil: Amnesty for illegal immigrants sparks hope and controversy 2009

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