sweating system
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of sweating system
First recorded in 1850–55
Example Sentences
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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
Atlas isn't keen about anything but the sweating system.
From Penelope's Postscripts by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin
One word must be said in this connection about the sweating system and its relation to trade unions.
From Twentieth Century Socialism What It Is Not; What It Is: How It May Come by Edmond Kelly
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
In 1890 the report of the House of Lords Committee on the sweating system recommends in certain cases "well-considered combinations among the laborers."
From An Introduction to the Industrial and Social History of England by Edward Potts Cheyney
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