where nike and gap, and old navy, and banana republic, and j crew, and etc... products are produced while paying workers ~$0.12/hour
fuck sweatshops
by chimaera January 23, 2003
A disgusting factory where workers are paid next to nothing so that we, the consumers, can have nice clothes that cost $100 dollars a peice. Sweatshops owners are evil people.
Some sweatshops are: Nike, ambercrombie, anne taylor, gap, NBA, Banana republic, pretty much any store you can name
by ELZAR January 6, 2006
A makeshift factory where men, women, and children slave for twelve hours or more a day for almost no money in crowded, dirty, dangerous conditions under the iron fist of unscrupulous managers just so that rich children get the toys that they want for their birthdays and for Christmas and so that their parents and older siblings get nice clothes and cool gadgets.
Nike, Banana Republic, the Gap, among others, use sweatshops. Sweatshops are everywhere, from Thailand and Honduras to New York and Los Angeles, often virtually enslaving workers.
The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire on March 25, 1911, in New York killed 146 clothing makers, most of them young immigrant women, some of them as young as thirteen. 62 of them jumped nine floors to the street below in their effort to escape the fire. And the patterns are being repeated today around the world.
The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire on March 25, 1911, in New York killed 146 clothing makers, most of them young immigrant women, some of them as young as thirteen. 62 of them jumped nine floors to the street below in their effort to escape the fire. And the patterns are being repeated today around the world.
by Lorelili March 2, 2010
A factory in a 2nd or 3rd world country where employment opportunities are given to those will very few alternatives.
Rosa: hey julia, back to the grind of selling your body today?
Julia: No, thank God! i got a job making shoes at a sweatshop!
Rosa: Lucky!
Julia: No, thank God! i got a job making shoes at a sweatshop!
Rosa: Lucky!
by nolkoa87 November 25, 2010
another word to describe school
jeff:what work do we have next
bob: we have french
jeff: but we already had 10 torture methods pre formed on us.
bob: but remember we still have french, english, history and maths homework plus a teacher who stet extra to annoy us
jeff:shhhhhhhhhhhhiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii it wil be hell
bob: well wolcome tothe sweatshop
bob: we have french
jeff: but we already had 10 torture methods pre formed on us.
bob: but remember we still have french, english, history and maths homework plus a teacher who stet extra to annoy us
jeff:shhhhhhhhhhhhiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii it wil be hell
bob: well wolcome tothe sweatshop
by the pharmicist May 10, 2020
A photoshop of a picture so well done you'd think the creator took hours, maybe even days making it for the sole purpose of appraisal.
Guy 1: "Man that billboard looks hella fleek; I want me a new Z phone."
Guy 2: It's sweatshopped, the Z phone runs like a pixalated dinosaur. at best."
Guy 2: It's sweatshopped, the Z phone runs like a pixalated dinosaur. at best."
by Capuchin for Hire December 21, 2021