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

Depressingly, Lorenz seems to believe that recording videos that hawk clothes made in an Indonesian sweatshop fulfills some kind of liberatory ideal.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2023

The child of poor Polish immigrants, she had been ambitious, worked days in a sweatshop and gone to school at night.

From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith

At the same time, "Fiddler" coincided with the Jewish exodus from tenements and sweatshops to suburban homes and professional opportunities.

From Salon ● Jul. 8, 2023

They lost control over immigration after a series of scandals over sweatshops — clothing companies that came in to make “Made in U.S.A.”-labeled clothes but paid workers pennies.

From New York Times ● Jul. 7, 2023

Major MNCs like Nike, Gap, Forever 21, Walmart, Victoria’s Secret, and others have been harshly criticized for using sweatshops to produce their shoes and clothing lines.

From Textbooks ● Dec. 14, 2022

She bounced around from L.A. factory to L.A. factory, avoiding wage theft and dodging sweatshops, before finally finding a job as a buttonhole operator on a production line, earning a decent wage.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 14, 2022

Shirts and trousers without the union label came from sweatshops like the one where Fannie had worked.

From "Fannie Never Flinched" by Mary Cronk Farrell