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

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sweating system

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

The attempt to secure by legislation or by combination an eight hours day, or its equivalent, might seem to affect the "sweating system" most directly, as a restriction on excessive hours of labour.

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

This special value of the trades-unions first became clear to the residents of Hull-House in connection with the sweating system.

From Twenty Years at Hull House; with autobiographical notes by Jane Addams

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 Thomas Hughes

Only a short time since a popular economic writer denounced a Boston clergyman for unveiling the horrors of the sweating system in the modern Athens.

From The Arena Volume 4, No. 23, October, 1891 by B. O. (Benjamin Orange) Flower

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