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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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Buying USA made t-shirts is one way to be sure you are helping the economy and not supporting sweatshop bosses.
Talk to these families in the dump, and a job in a sweatshop is a cherished dream, an escalator out of poverty, the kind of gauzy if probably unrealistic ambition that parents everywhere often have for their children.
CAPTION(S): HARD LABOUR Mark, left, and Richard in the sweatshop
 
 
 
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