Example sentences for: sweatshop

How can you use “sweatshop” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • And what can be done to ameliorate sweatshop conditions in developing countries that produce and export half of the apparel purchased in this country?

  • The merchant marine has become "the sweatshop of the high seas."

  • Those who will die, says the paper, include Chinese prisoners, Australian aborigines, immigrant laborers in the Middle East, Eastern European peasants, and South Korean sweatshop workers.

  • Saturday my study group (go ahead, laugh) met to discuss Doug Henwood's new book Wall Street (I missed this session because I hadn't read the book) and at lunchtime they went to a demonstration in Union Square, that was supposed to be of Latino sweatshop workers, and came away reeling: maybe fifteen people, mostly ancient sectarians and a few young ones, all full of the old rhetoric (a moment of silence followed by a "moment of rage" with raised fists but some people didn't know how to do it, memories of the black athletes' stand at the Mexico City Olympics having faded).

  • On April 16, demonstrators at Harvard, Yale, Stanford, and Kent State spoke out on labor issues ranging from graduate student unionization, academic stipends, and teaching loads to sweatshop abuses.


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