sweatshop
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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
Zookeepers “may as well live and die surrounded by animals than in a sweatshop or war zone, right?”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 8, 2025
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
Minka Levinsky was a girl who worked in a sweatshop to help her ailing mother make their meager rent.
From "Night Owls" by A.R. Vishny
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.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 2, 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
Fannie worked at one of two sweatshops owned and operated by the Marx & Haas Clothing Co., the largest clothing manufacturer in St. Louis.
From "Fannie Never Flinched" by Mary Cronk Farrell
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