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sweatshop: see sweating system sweating system, method of exploiting labor by supplying materials to workers and paying by the piece (see piecework ) for work done on those materials in the workers' homes or in small workshops (sweatshops). ..... Click the link for more information. . How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| Many work in the agricultural industry, sweat shops and as prostitutes. But it was hardly an aberration: Southern California, like New York, has had a long history of sweat shop conditions in the garment industry. Here are the stories of a Japanese immigrant who worked as a house servant, a young woman from Troy, New York, who worked as a collar starcher and helped to organize her co-workers, a young Polish girl who worked in a sweat shop and went to school at night, a young Italian boy who set up a chain of shoeshine parlors, and the tale of Lee Chew, who established a laundry but, having made money, planned to go back to China because of the prejudice and discrimination he found in the United States. |
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