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

As the design of the sweating system is the elimination of rent from the manufacture of clothing, the "outside work" is begun after the clothing leaves the cutter.

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

Irregularity of employment, or, more accurately speaking, insufficiency of employment--for the "irregularity" is itself regular--forms one of the most terrible phases of the sweating system.

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

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)

Even the sweating system could be found at work in holes and corners.

From The Long White Cloud by Reeves, William Pember

Regarded from the widest economic point of view, the existence of an excessive supply of labour seeking employments open to free competition must be regarded as the most important aspect of the "sweating system."

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