'sweated labor' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when referring to labor that is done under difficult or unfair conditions, and which is often done for a low wage. For example, "Many garment factories employ sweated labor, with employees working long hours for a low pay."
The term "sweatshop" is American and originates from the end of the nineteenth century — Webster's dates its first use to 1892 — and was meant to describe "sweated labor".
The term "sweatshop" is American and originates from the end of the nineteenth century Webster's dates its first use to 1892 and was meant to describe "sweated labor".
"I OFTEN wondered whether other businesses above the level of sweated labor imposed on their personnel the degree of discomfort we got away with.
Those useful objects were cheap in part because Woolworth's scoured the world for sweated labor.
Some insecurities are financial – the institutionalized gig economy (sweated labor), some stem from the renewed crisis in white masculine identity paradoxically heightened by the sexual revolution and its deformations in pop culture, some by the multiple neuroses pervading a country that has lost solid points of reference.
Speaking by phone from the bedroom studio, Finley said that she enjoys reflecting on the community spirit of the Hopper house's restoration by its Nyack neighbors, with "their own money and sweat labor".
The sweat labor that has been performed for us is nothing short of miraculous.
Maybe it's because of the e-mail I received from one of my favorite cousins, a free-spirited artist who, out of her own sweat, labor, goodwill and big heart, helped to found an educational center catering to the poorest kids in Haiti, The Children of Haiti Project.
At that moment, sweating through labor, were three women who had come over the bridges from Juárez with legal visas.
Its loadmaster, sweating from brute labor and the tropical night, double-checked the tie-downs on a casket of human remains and 4,800 pounds of rockets and returned to her Glamour magazine article about a newer, sexier, flatter stomach.
Most women sweat during heavy labor and delivery, and keeping the hair off the face will provide some comfort to the difficult task.
