sweating system
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of sweating system
First recorded in 1850–55
Example Sentences
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A margin of unemployed labour means a bare subsistence wage for low-skilled labour, and it means this wage earned under industrial conditions, such as we find under the "sweating system."
From Problems of Poverty by J. A. (John Atkinson) Hobson
But in the small workshops, which form about 80 per cent of the whole number, the common evils of the sweating system assert themselves--overcrowding, bad sanitation, and excessive hours of labour.
From Problems of Poverty by J. A. (John Atkinson) Hobson
It covers the whole question of the employment of boys, women, old men, and half-supported persons, and includes the "sweating" system.
From Twentieth Century Socialism What It Is Not; What It Is: How It May Come by Edmond Kelly
The half dozen factories were only the centre of a widespread sweating system.
From Comrade Yetta by Albert Edwards
The abolition of the small workshop is the great object of a large number of practical reformers who have studied the sweating system.
From Problems of Poverty by J. A. (John Atkinson) Hobson
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