sweatshop labor
Cheap manufacturing workforce
Sweatshop labor is work performed under exploitative conditions—long hours, low pay, unsafe environments, and little legal protection.
The term evokes garment factories in developing countries, though sweatshops exist wherever desperate workers can be exploited: The brand faced backlash when investigators exposed sweatshop labor in its supply chain.
The modifier distinguishes this from legitimate factory work.
- factoryIndustrial production facility
- exploitationSelfish use of others
- workersPeople doing jobs
- wagesPayment for work
- garmentArticle of clothing
child workers · textile · overtime · conditions · child · poverty · oppression · human rights · unsafe · fire hazard · industrial · minimum · living wage · piece rate · hours · abuse · manufacturing · unfair
- unpleasant jobsgarbage collection, meat packing, mucking stalls, latrine duty, coal mining
- labor systemschattel slavery, debt bondage, indentured servitude, manorialism, peonage
- sweatshopsgarment worker, garment workers, garment factories, factory workers, low wages
- ethical financeethical investing, impact investing, fair lending, green bonds, microfinance
sweatshop laborunionized labor
Workforce with collective representation
collective bargaining · worker cooperatives · organized labor · employee ownership · labor movement
sweatshop laborworker cooperatives
Collectively owned democratic businesses
collective bargaining · unionized workforce · artisan workshops
sweat, shop, labor, sweats, sweated, sweating, sweaty, sweatshops, shops