sweated labour BrE informal
sweatees BrE informal

Sweated labour forces down the wages of all workers, whether underground or legal.

Not by any stretch of the imagination could the night shift in this particular box be called sweated labour.

It was here I had intimate experience with sweated labour", he comments without irony."

I know that a few readers are now muttering 'sweated labour' under their breath!

"Magnificent day with a permanent memory - jewellery from our own sweated labour."

Conybeare defined 'sweated labour' as "a woman who is paid less than a man for the same work".

Daily it devours whole forests and countless hours of sweated labour.

In fact, sweated labour is making a comeback in the industrialized world.

Two commission members dissented from the decision on the grounds that the exploitation constituted sweated labour.

Today, the battle to counter tax evasion, fight crime, and recognize the role of sweated labour in Italian success is vigorous.

In 1906, the News sponsored an exhibition on sweated labour at the Queen's Hall.

In 1933 a visit by her to the hospital kitchen and claims of long hours and "sweated labour" there aroused controversy on the board.

The letter has been organised by No Sweat, a campaigning organisation against sweated labour and the exploitation of migrant workers.

At Harvard University, King started research for a doctoral dissertation on sweated labour and the clothing industry.

The group argued that these goods were produced by sweated labour, and that the Lancashire textile industry needed protection.

He also took up the issue of sweated labour, finding contemporary caricatures of Jewish exploiters apt.

The 1918 extended the piecemeal system for tackling sweated labour begun under the Trade Boards Act 1909.

In short, the EU is exploiting sweated labour, the same evil practice it is so keen to eradicate here.

As a matter of fact, most of the London publishers send their printing to Edinburgh to get it done at half cost by sweated labour.

Sweating Commission reported that there was no sweated labour in New Zealand but that women and child workers were exploited.

Docilely Harriet pads off and comes back and they gurgle out what she knows is the sweated labour of Singapore.

In 1897, while conducting research into the Canadian garment industry, King discovered that the uniforms of Canadian postal workers were produced by sweated labour.

A particular target was sweated labour, with Dwyer setting up the Women Workers' union in 1904 for home workes and those employed in sweatshops.

However, they show little evidence of what their problems actually are, and the phrase at the top does little to help ideas, describing only the slavery in sweated labour.

Part of the course consisted of slum visiting, which brought her into contact with the slums of Shoreditch and the evils of sweated labour.