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sweatshop
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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).
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This record number of 2,823 new laws introduced with a vast clerical, legal and administrative army of civil servants appears more like a sweat shop factory production line than carefully considered progressive legislation for the nation.
Every person in China not working in a sweat shop has been trained to win an Olympic event.
We should build more jails and replace the TVs with sewing machines to turn them into sweat shops, so prisoners pay for their keep.
 
 
 
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