sweatshop
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The fashion-magazine moment is long gone as Miranda deals with such alarming new trends as budget cuts, the imperative to cram her vision into annoying little video clips, and consumer sensitivity to sweatshop manufacturing.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 29, 2026
A Hong Kong content creator dressed head to toe in Tod's, 26-year-old Stephanie Hui, said people were "desensitised" to stories of sweatshop conditions in the fashion industry, with consumers feeling powerless to effect change.
From Barron's ● Feb. 27, 2026
They lived for a while in Harlem while his mother worked in a sweatshop and got by with the help of food stamps.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 15, 2024
The company is named for his grandfather, the son of a Lithuanian sweatshop worker, who built a family concern that sold sand, gravel, lime and coal into a Chicago business empire worth billions.
From New York Times ● Jun. 27, 2023
The child of poor Polish immigrants, she had been ambitious, worked days in a sweatshop and gone to school at night.
From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith
Franklin Roosevelt aptly referred to it as “this ancient atrocity” in 1933, when he signed a textile industry code that outlawed the employment of children younger than 16 in sweatshops.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 2, 2025
At the moment, someone might be driving an SUV, might be eating lots of meat and might buying clothes that were made in sweatshops.
From Salon ● Jul. 30, 2023
The multinational technology company Apple Inc. has faced intense criticism in recent years for its use of foreign-owned sweatshops in Asia.
From Textbooks ● Dec. 14, 2022
It has set up small factories in the countryside to lure workers back home from sweatshops in Bangkok, part of an effort to combat the urban migration that has debilitated rural economies.
From New York Times ● Aug. 5, 2022
Although I am sure that there are call centers that are operated like sweatshops, 24/7 is not one of them.
From "The World Is Flat" by Thomas L. Friedman
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East Asia - Middle School
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