sweating system
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of sweating system
First recorded in 1850–55
Example Sentences
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Mr. Hoar's resolution for an inquiry into the so-called sweating system of tenement labor.
From United States Government Publications, v. 8 Jan-Jun 1892 A Monthly Catalog by Compiled
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 Addams, Jane
The true sweating system with all its dire effects upon the health of the worker, and threatening the very existence of the home, was in full force.
From The Trade Union Woman by Henry, Alice
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)
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