What Does Sweatshop Mean?
A Sweatshop or Sweat Factory Is a Crowded Workplace with Very Poor, Socially Unacceptable or Illegal Working Conditions. the Work May Be Difficult, Dangerous...
A sweatshop or sweat factory is a crowded workplace with very poor, socially unacceptable or illegal working conditions. The work may be difficult, dangerous, climatically challenging or underpaid.
Why was it called a sweatshop?
The phrase sweatshop was coined in 1850, meaning a factory or workshop where workers are treated unfairly, for example having low wages, working long hours, and in poor conditions. Since 1850, immigrants have been flocking to work at sweatshops in cities like London and New York for more than one century.
What is a sweatshop in business terms?
Sweatshop, workplace in which workers are employed at low wages and under unhealthy or oppressive conditions. In England, the word sweater was used as early as 1850 to describe an employer who exacted monotonous work for very low wages.
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