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

Thus one of the most glaring evils of the sweating system is seen to form a distinct economic advantage in the workshop, as compared with the large factory.

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

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 Flower, B. O. (Benjamin Orange)

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 Hobson, J. A. (John Atkinson)

One of the speakers had alluded to the evil part in the sweating system which is played by the highly paid "speeders."

From Comrade Yetta by Edwards, Albert

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 Hobson, J. A. (John Atkinson)