DCHP-2

sweatshop † DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

• n. — Slang

  a factory where workers are employed at low wages for long hours of toil.

  See also: sweat factory  

  • The term derives from the practice of "sweaters" in the highly competitive middle-man shops in the garment industry driving underpaid needlewomen and tailors, often immigrants.