sweatshop worker
Underpaid factory hand
A sweatshop worker is someone employed in a factory or workshop with poor conditions—long hours, low pay, and inadequate safety protections.
The term often describes workers in garment manufacturing or assembly plants in developing economies, though sweatshops exist worldwide.
The documentary followed sweatshop workers making clothes for major brands.
- factoryIndustrial production facility
- garmentArticle of clothing
- sewingCraft with needle and thread
- sewing machineDevice for joining fabric
- machinePower-driven working device
textile · exploitation · labor · low wages · wages · overtime · stitching · assembly · piece rate · foreman · quota · exhaustion · cramped · needle · fabric · immigrant · minimum · grind
- laborerslaborers, day laborer, day labourer, day laborers, hired hands
- oppressedslave, serf, captive, prisoner, hostage
- factory workersfactory hand, machine operator, assembler, welder, machinist
- unfree laborersslave, chattel slave, bondsman, bondswoman, bondservant
sweatshop workerunion worker
tenured professor · skilled tradesperson · government employee · civil servant · consultant
sweatshop workerbusiness owner
Someone running their enterprise
capitalist · industrialist · employer · exploiter · executive
sweatshop workercorporate executive
Senior company leader
investment banker · aristocrat · knowledge worker · management consultant
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