sweating system

American  

noun

1. the practice of employing workers in sweatshops.

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Etymology

Origin of sweating system

First recorded in 1850–55

Example Sentences

It is not on record that any one ever found a good word to say for the "sweating system."

From Comrade Yetta by Edwards, Albert

The sweating system had established the show shops and the ticket system, both of which were countenanced by the government, till it had become a fashion to support them.

From Alton Locke, Tailor and Poet An Autobiography by Hughes, Thomas

Irregularity of employment, or, more accurately speaking, insufficiency of employment--for the "irregularity" is itself regular--forms one of the most terrible phases of the sweating system.

From Problems of Poverty by Hobson, J. A. (John Atkinson)

The half dozen factories were only the centre of a widespread sweating system.

From Comrade Yetta by Edwards, Albert

There are in the Boston Public Library five ponderous volumes containing the evidence taken before a commission, appointed by the English House of Lords, to examine into the sweating system of Great Britain.

From White Slaves; or, the Oppression of the Worthy Poor by Banks, Louis Albert