sweatshop

Zookeepers “may as well live and die surrounded by animals than in a sweatshop or war zone, right?”

Franklin Roosevelt aptly referred to it as “this ancient atrocity” in 1933, when he signed a textile industry code that outlawed the employment of children younger than 16 in sweatshops.

“Yuletide Factory,” a circus show at the New Victory Theater, splits the difference, locating its cheer inside a sweatshop churning out seasonal doodads.

They lived for a while in Harlem while his mother worked in a sweatshop and got by with the help of food stamps.

In Hong Kong, Mr Lai worked in a garment sweatshop and taught himself English.