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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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| The National Association of College Stores (NACS) has issued a research paper analyzing one approach to ending support for companies with ties to sweatshops. In the summer of 2006, 14 college anti-sweatshop activists from United Students Against Sweatshops (USAS) went to 12 countries to gather evidence to convince universities to writing sweeping demands into the multimillion-dollar contracts they sign for college-logo apparel (http://www. Ross defines sweatshops as places that have some or all the following characteristics: they fail to pay minimum wages, have long hours not remunerated with premium pay, employ child labor and lack adequate benefits. |
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