0 a small factory where workers are paid very little and work many hours in very bad conditions: --
sweatshop conditions
1 a small factory where workers are paid very little and work many hours under bad conditions --
2 a place where people work for long hours and very low pay in an unhealthy situation: --
That practice is growing in my constituency in the new appalling low-paying sweatshops that are springing up in the west midlands.
It is no longer a matter of working in a sweatshop or starving.
Their objective seems to be simply a penny-pinching, cost-cutting sweatshop economy.
If we are to compete internationally as a nation we will not do so by paying sweatshop wages.
It is a problem that affects, above all, textile industries, as indeed the problem of sweatshops has throughout the centuries and many lands.
If they devoted a disproportionate amount of time to so-called sweatshops, which is probably the wrong designation, other important areas would be neglected.
Perhaps he will tell us whether that is "sweatshop" investment.
Millions of children under the age of 12 work in sweatshops in ever-expanding cities to satisfy the world demand for cheap consumer goods.
