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ˈslop-work
[f. slop n.1]
1. The making of slop-garments; the articles thus made.
1849Knife & Fork 34 A charge of illegally pawning slop-work. 1855Dickens Dorrit i. xviii, The waistcoat of sprigs—mere slop-work, if the truth must be known. 1890Spectator 4 Oct., The girls do not retain the use of their needle..: and the slop-work is so cheap.
attrib.1885Queen 26 Sept. (Cassell), Worse done than if sent to the worst slop-work shop in the East-end.
2. Work cheaply and imperfectly done.
1861Smiles Lives Engineers II. 216 He would not risk his reputation..on slop-work. 1870J. B. Brown Eccl. Truth 267 The starvation wages on which it [capital] can get its slop-work done.
So ˈslop-worker, one who does slop-work; ˈslop-working vbl. n.
1850C. Kingsley Cheap Clothes & Nasty 22 It served as a blanket to the fever-stricken slopworker. Ibid. 26 Fresh victims are being driven by penury into the slop-working trade. 1851Mayhew Lond. Lab. (1864) II. 342/2 The slop-workers..will make nine such sized mantles in a week. 1859Geo. Eliot in Cross Life (1885) II. 133 The little sleeping slop-worker who had pricked her tiny finger so. 1890Spectator 4 Oct. 438/2 That slop-workers should be trained to sew, does not enter into their programme. |