Sweatshop

Sweatshop (or sweat factory) is a term for a workplace with very poor, socially unacceptable or illegal working conditions.

Quotes

• The billionaire boom is not a sign of a thriving economy but a symptom of a failing economic system. The people who make our clothes, assemble our phones and grow our food are being exploited to ensure a steady supply of cheap goods, and swell the profits of corporations and billionaire investors.
  • Winnie Byanyima, Richest 1 percent bagged 82 percent of wealth created last year - poorest half of humanity got nothing, Oxfam International (22 January 2018)

• Work—work—work
  Till the brain begins to swim!
  Work—work—work
  Till the eyes are heavy and dim!
  Seam, and gusset, and band,
  Band, and gusset, and seam,—
  Till over the buttons I fall asleep,
  And sew them on in a dream!
  
  O Men, with sisters dear!
  O Men, with mothers and wives!
  It is not linen you're wearing out,
  But human creatures' lives!
  Stitch—stitch—stitch
  In poverty, hunger, and dirt,—
  Sewing at once, with a double thread,
  A shroud as well as a shirt.

• Thomas Hood, The Song of the Shirt (1843)

See also

• Sweatshop union (band)