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sweating system
noun
the practice of employing workers in sweatshops.
Word History and Origins
Origin of sweating system1
Example Sentences
One of the speakers had alluded to the evil part in the sweating system which is played by the highly paid "speeders."
It is not on record that any one ever found a good word to say for the "sweating system."
The half dozen factories were only the centre of a widespread sweating system.
He worked actively against the sweating system, pleaded for European intervention in Macedonia, and was a keen supporter of the Licensing Bill of 1908.
Take the sweating system of the East End of London, in which, bad conditions of labour always going together, we find starvation wages combined with long hours and unwholesome work-rooms.
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