sweatshop

See also: sweat shop

English

Alternative forms

• sweat shop

Etymology

From sweat (“to extract money, labour, etc.”, verb) +‎ shop.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈswɛtˌʃɒp/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈswɛtˌʃɑp/

Noun

sweatshop (plural sweatshops)

1. A factory or other place of work where pay is low and conditions are poor or even illegal. [from 1892]
   • 2001 February 19, Jonah Peretti, quotee, “Jonah Peretti and Nike”, in The Guardian‎^[1]:

     I was thrilled to be able to build my own shoes, and my personal iD was offered as a small token of appreciation for the sweatshop workers poised to help me realize my vision.

Synonyms

• sweat factory

Translations

factory

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 血汗工廠 / 血汗工厂 (zh) (xuèhàn gōngchǎng, xuěhàn gōngchǎng, xiěhàn gōngchǎng)

• Finnish: hikipaja (fi)
• French: atelier de misère m, atelier d’exploitation m, atelier de pressurage m
• German: Sweatshop m, Ausbeutungsbetrieb m
• Japanese: ブラック企業 (ja) (burakku-kigyō), ブラック会社 (burakku-gaisha)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: utbyttingsbedrift m

• Polish: fabryka smrodu f
• Portuguese: fábrica clandestina f, ateliê da miséria m, fábrica escravizante f
• Russian: потого́нка (ru) f (potogónka) (rare), потогонное произво́дство (potogonnoje proizvódstvo)
• Serbo-Croatian: izrabljivaonica f
• Spanish: taller clandestino m
• Swedish: låglönefabrik c, sweatshop c
• Thai: โรงงานนรก (roong-ngaan-ná-rók)

References

• Douglas Harper (2001–2025) “sweatshop”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.

Further reading

• sweatshop on Wikipedia.Wikipedia