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sweating system
noun
- the practice of employing workers in sweatshops.
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51Թ History and Origins
Origin of sweating system1
First recorded in 1850–55
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One of the speakers had alluded to the evil part in the sweating system which is played by the highly paid "speeders."
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It is not on record that any one ever found a good word to say for the "sweating system."
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The half dozen factories were only the centre of a widespread sweating system.
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He worked actively against the sweating system, pleaded for European intervention in Macedonia, and was a keen supporter of the Licensing Bill of 1908.
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Take the sweating system of the East End of London, in which, bad conditions of labour always going together, we find starvation wages combined with long hours and unwholesome work-rooms.
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