sweatshop

The fashion-magazine moment is long gone as Miranda deals with such alarming new trends as budget cuts, the imperative to cram her vision into annoying little video clips, and consumer sensitivity to sweatshop manufacturing.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 29, 2026

Both leaders had famously tough childhoods -- Lee worked in a sweatshop to support his family, while Lula dropped out of school to sell peanuts and shine shoes.

From Barron's ● Feb. 23, 2026

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

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 15, 2024

Rainmaker Hall is the central meeting space, created inside an old hangar that was once a sweatshop with high, arching beams.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 26, 2023

After my mother was arrested in the sweatshop immigration raid, a prison doctor had given her a shot of a drug to keep her calm overnight; That shot, my mother believed, caused Caroline’s condition.

From "Krik? Krak!" by Edwidge Danticat

“They’re not really sweatshops, but they’re as close as you can get to them,” Menon said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 17, 2025

At the moment, someone might be driving an SUV, might be eating lots of meat and might buying clothes that were made in sweatshops.

From Salon ● Jul. 30, 2023

Those hired overseas experienced their own problems, however, because outsourcing often led to the rise of sweatshops, factories where poorly paid workers labor in dangerous environments.

From Textbooks ● Dec. 14, 2022

It has set up small factories in the countryside to lure workers back home from sweatshops in Bangkok, part of an effort to combat the urban migration that has debilitated rural economies.

From New York Times ● Aug. 5, 2022

Although I am sure that there are call centers that are operated like sweatshops, 24/7 is not one of them.

From "The World Is Flat" by Thomas L. Friedman