sweatshop

Example Sentences

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A Hong Kong content creator dressed head to toe in Tod's, 26-year-old Stephanie Hui, said people were "desensitised" to stories of sweatshop conditions in the fashion industry, with consumers feeling powerless to effect change.

From Barron's • Feb. 27, 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

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