What is another word for sweatshop?

Pronunciation: [swˈɛtʃɒp] (IPA)

Sweatshops are workplaces where workers are often subjected to long hours, low pay and poor working conditions. However, these factories are not limited to low-wage countries; they can be found all over the world. In recent years, there has been a push to use alternative synonyms to describe these types of workplaces. Some synonyms for the word "sweatshop" include "workplace exploitation centers," "forced labor factories," "substandard working conditions," and "worker abuse factories." These alternative terms emphasize the negative aspects of sweatshops and provide a more accurate and honest description of the working conditions that exist within them. Using these synonyms raises awareness of the issue and encourages people to take action against worker exploitation.

What are the hypernyms for Sweatshop?

A hypernym is a word with a broad meaning that encompasses more specific words called hyponyms.

What are the hyponyms for Sweatshop?

Hyponyms are more specific words categorized under a broader term, known as a hypernym.

Usage examples for Sweatshop

How many of you can swear no sweatshop ever saw your clothes?
"Editorials-from-the-Hearst-Newspapers"
Brisbane, Arthur
And why do we refuse to permit unions to do for themselves what we do on a sentimental, philanthropic, haphazard basis, through our "sweatshop laws," for the miserable, unorganized workers of the slums?
"Editorials-from-the-Hearst-Newspapers"
Brisbane, Arthur
A man works in a sweatshop, and has only a little time for self-improvement, and will I tell him what books he ought to read?
"The Book of Life: Vol. I Mind and Body; Vol. II Love and Society"
Upton Sinclair

Famous quotes with Sweatshop

  • I am in this same river. I can't much help it. I admit it: I'm racist. The other night I saw a group (or maybe a pack?) or white teenagers standing in a vacant lot, clustered around a 4x4, and I crossed the street to avoid them; had they been black, I probably would have taken another street entirely. And I'm misogynistic. I admit that, too. I'm a shitty cook, and a worse house cleaner, probably in great measure because I've internalized the notion that these are woman's work. Of course, I never admit that's why I don't do them: I always say I just don't much enjoy those activities (which is true enough; and it's true enough also that many women don't enjoy them either), and in any case, I've got better things to do, like write books and teach classes where I feel morally superior to pimps. And naturally I value money over life. Why else would I own a computer with a hard drive put together in Thailand by women dying of job-induced cancer? Why else would I own shirts made in a sweatshop in Bangladesh, and shoes put together in Mexico? The truth is that, although many of my best friends are people of color (as the cliche goes), and other of my best friends are women, I am part of this river: I benefit from the exploitation of others, and I do not much want to sacrifice this privilege. I am, after all, civilized, and have gained a taste for "comforts and elegancies" which can be gained only through the coercion of slavery. The truth is that like most others who benefit from this deep and broad river, I would probably rather die (and maybe even kill, or better, have someone kill for me) than trade places with the men, women, and children who made my computer, my shirt, my shoes.
    Derrick Jensen

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