sweatshop
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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
In Hong Kong, Mr Lai worked in a garment sweatshop and taught himself English.
From BBC • Jan. 2, 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
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East Asia - Middle School
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