Sweatshop

//ˈswɛtˌʃɑp//

Synonyms for "sweatshop" (33 found)

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Translations

21 translations across 13 languages.

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Chinese Mandarin

1 entries
  • 血汗工廠 /血汗工厂 noun (cheap factory)

Finnish

1 entries
  • hikipaja noun (cheap factory)

French

3 entries
  • atelier d'exploitation noun (cheap factory)
  • atelier de misère noun (cheap factory)
  • atelier de pressurage noun (cheap factory)

German

2 entries
  • Ausbeutungsbetrieb noun (cheap factory)
  • Sweatshop noun (cheap factory)

Japanese

2 entries
  • ブラック企業 noun (cheap factory)
  • ブラック会社 noun (cheap factory)

Norwegian Bokmål

1 entries
  • utbyttingsbedrift noun (cheap factory)

Polish

1 entries
  • fabryka smrodu noun (cheap factory)

Portuguese

3 entries
  • ateliê da miséria noun (cheap factory)
  • fábrica clandestina noun (cheap factory)
  • fábrica escravizante noun (cheap factory)

Russian

2 entries
  • потого́нка noun (cheap factory)
  • потогонное произво́дство noun (cheap factory)

Serbo-Croatian

1 entries
  • izrabljivaonica noun (cheap factory)

Spanish

1 entries
  • taller clandestino noun (cheap factory)

Swedish

2 entries
  • låglönefabrik noun (cheap factory)
  • sweatshop noun (cheap factory)

Thai

1 entries
  • โรงงานนรก noun (cheap factory)

Sample sentences

8 total sentences available.

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If the real purpose of all the uproar about sweatshop labor in the Third World is to allow college students and professors to feel morally one-up on businesses that are providing much-needed jobs in poor countries, then it accomplishes that purpose.

Source: tatoeba (2492755)

Sweatshop labor, rainforest destruction, global warming, displacement of indigenous communities, air and water pollution, eradication of wildlife on farmland as “pests”, the violent overthrow of popularly elected governments to maintain puppet dictators compliant to big business interests, open-pit strip mining, oil drilling in environmentally sensitive areas, union busting, child slavery, and payoffs to repressive regimes are just some of the many impacts of the seemingly innocuous consumer products we consume every day.

Source: tatoeba (4066491)

A lot of the products we buy are made by sweatshop workers or even slaves.

Source: tatoeba (6045779)

"In this shop they sell really cheap kitchen utensils." "Exactly, and they're made by slave-labourers in some South Asian sweatshop. I wouldn't shop there even if I was paid to."

Source: tatoeba (9306277)

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