'sweatshops' is a correct and usable word in written English.
You can use it to refer to a workplace where people are employed at low wages and in poor working conditions. Example sentence: The widespread use of sweatshops in developing countries has led to ethical concerns about how workers are treated.
In the 1990s, Nike's sweatshops weren't the worst in the business, but they're the ones that got the negative publicity.
Last week, our ambition to compete in the global race was airily dismissed as a race to the bottom, that it means competing with China on sweatshops and India on low wages.
Adidas has its own version of slaves working to make such goods – in the form of low-paid workers in sweatshops.
As long as the seller "authors" the product and is open about who makes it, self-policing by Etsians will ensure that only small artisanal manufacturers are employed, not sweatshops in Shenzhen, he insists.
On the one hand, there was the commitment to manufacturing in America, the resolute avoidance of sweatshops (something other youth-oriented clothing makers failed to practise) and the "sustainable" manufacturing processes.
No matter how awful we might consider the sweatshops of the developing world, if hundreds of people are queuing to get those jobs, it is obvious that whatever the alternatives are must be worse.
A reputation for running sweatshops may damage a brand, and thus hit sales.
SPINNING, weaving, dyeing and stitching garment making has been in the vanguard of most of the world's industrial revolutions, from the Lancashire mills of the 19th century to the Hong Kong sweatshops of the 1980s.
Instead, they have been trying to build a reputation for strict labour standards that might appeal to western firms not wishing to be associated with sweatshops.
Wages have gone up, so the number of sweatshops has gone down.
Its waters, dirty and hidden, were trapped beneath a roaring highway; its surroundings were a slum of sweatshops, metal bashing and poverty.
