sweatshop workers
Underpaid factory hands
Sweatshop workers are laborers employed in factories with poor conditions—low wages, long hours, unsafe environments, and few protections.
The term emphasizes exploitation, often in garment manufacturing or electronics assembly: The investigation revealed sweatshop workers earning pennies per hour.
The phrase carries implicit criticism of the employer rather than the workers themselves.
- garmentArticle of clothing
- factoryIndustrial production facility
- fast fashionTrend-driven cheap apparel
- exploitationSelfish use of others
- laborStrenuous effort; also childbirth
child labor · seamstress · textile · overtime · wages · sewing · machines · cramped · exhausted · minimum · living wage · stitching · industrial · poverty · third world · conditions · assembly · line
- workersemployee, employees, laborer, laborers, wage earner
- blue-collar jobsconstruction, farm hand, miners, miner, dockworker
- underlingsunderling, underlings, subordinate, minions, minion
- garment workersseamstresses, tailors, sewers, cutters, stitchers
- Labor Movementlabor leaders, union organizers, union leaders, labor activists, labor movement
- marginalizedmarginalized, disenfranchised, outcasts, pariahs, oppressed
sweatshop workersemployers
Those who hire staff
capitalists · management · industrialists · corporate executives · shareholders
sweatshop workersindependent contractors
Self-employed service providers
freelancers · business owners · entrepreneurs · craftspeople · professionals
sweat, shop, worker, sweats, sweated, sweating, sweaty, sweatier, sweatiest