sweatshopn.

Brit.

/ˈswɛtʃɒp/, U.S.

/ˈswɛtˌsɑp/

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: sweat v., shop n.

Etymology: < sweat v. (compare senses 5c and 6b at that entry) + shop n. Compare sweating shop n. at sweating n. Compounds 1d.Compare also the following isolated early quotation, the meaning of which is unclear:1846 National Police Gaz. (U.S.) 31 Oct. 60/2 We call the attention of the members of the grand jury, who will be summoned next week to attend the November term of the Sessions of this city, to the ‘Sweat’ shops in Courtland street, near Broadway, recently opened by policy dealers, who have left their swindling business through our expositions.

Originally U.S.

A workshop, factory, or other establishment, especially in the clothing industry, where workers are employed at very low wages for long hours and under poor conditions. Also figurative and in extended use.Earliest with reference to the use of the sweating system (see sweating n. 2b) within private houses.

ΘΚΠ

society > occupation and work > workplace > types of workplace generally > [noun] > with long hours and low wages > in a house

sweatshop1880

1880 N.-Y. Tribune 20 Mar. 4/4 Boys and girls are shut up in close garrets or cellars in an atmosphere poisoned with nicotine, and the physical and moral influences of the place are on a par with the sweat-shops for tailors in London, whose horrors Charles Kingsley painted in such lurid colors.

1938 Times Lit. Suppl. 3 Dec. 767/2 The story of two Jews who, in youth, work in the same tailoring sweat-shop.

1959 Daily Tel. 17 Apr. 13/8 I cannot really think that he should want my job. Whitehall, and certainly Downing Street, is nothing but a sweatshop.

1989 New Yorker 5 June 34/1 The nearly invisible stitches along the collar turned in a sweatshop by Koreans or Malaysians.

2005 T. Hall Salaam Brick Lane xi. 233 Mr Ali had his feet on a box of fake football strips that he'd had his boys manufacturing in the sweatshop.

Compounds

General use as a modifier.

ΚΠ

1884 St. Louis (Missouri) Post-Dispatch 11 Oct. 11/4 This..makes the profits of the sweat-shop-keeper from 20 to 35 per cent.

1900 F. H. Stoddard Evol. Eng. Novel 172 The contract system—the familiar sweat-shop system of more modern days.

1971 I. Metzker & D. L. Levy tr. Bintel Brief 88 The workman's disease was tuberculosis, endemic on the East Side during the sweatshop era.

1992 Economist 10 Oct. (Suppl.) 12/2 Only the illegal immigrants from Malaysia, the Philippines, Thailand, Indonesia and the mainland..are willing to work for sweat-shop wages.

2009 T. Footman Noughties ix. 134 Anti-capitalists protested that this was..a means for Western businesses to take advantage of low wages, sweatshop conditions, non-unionized workforces and lax safety regulations.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2021; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	sweatshop
释义	sweatshopn. Brit. /ˈswɛtʃɒp/, U.S. /ˈswɛtˌsɑp/ Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: sweat v., shop n. Etymology: < sweat v. (compare senses 5c and 6b at that entry) + shop n. Compare sweating shop n. at sweating n. Compounds 1d.Compare also the following isolated early quotation, the meaning of which is unclear:1846 National Police Gaz. (U.S.) 31 Oct. 60/2 We call the attention of the members of the grand jury, who will be summoned next week to attend the November term of the Sessions of this city, to the ‘Sweat’ shops in Courtland street, near Broadway, recently opened by policy dealers, who have left their swindling business through our expositions. Originally U.S. A workshop, factory, or other establishment, especially in the clothing industry, where workers are employed at very low wages for long hours and under poor conditions. Also figurative and in extended use.Earliest with reference to the use of the sweating system (see sweating n. 2b) within private houses. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > workplace > types of workplace generally > [noun] > with long hours and low wages > in a house sweatshop1880 1880 N.-Y. Tribune 20 Mar. 4/4 Boys and girls are shut up in close garrets or cellars in an atmosphere poisoned with nicotine, and the physical and moral influences of the place are on a par with the sweat-shops for tailors in London, whose horrors Charles Kingsley painted in such lurid colors. 1938 Times Lit. Suppl. 3 Dec. 767/2 The story of two Jews who, in youth, work in the same tailoring sweat-shop. 1959 Daily Tel. 17 Apr. 13/8 I cannot really think that he should want my job. Whitehall, and certainly Downing Street, is nothing but a sweatshop. 1989 New Yorker 5 June 34/1 The nearly invisible stitches along the collar turned in a sweatshop by Koreans or Malaysians. 2005 T. Hall Salaam Brick Lane xi. 233 Mr Ali had his feet on a box of fake football strips that he'd had his boys manufacturing in the sweatshop. Compounds General use as a modifier. ΚΠ 1884 St. Louis (Missouri) Post-Dispatch 11 Oct. 11/4 This..makes the profits of the sweat-shop-keeper from 20 to 35 per cent. 1900 F. H. Stoddard Evol. Eng. Novel 172 The contract system—the familiar sweat-shop system of more modern days. 1971 I. Metzker & D. L. Levy tr. Bintel Brief 88 The workman's disease was tuberculosis, endemic on the East Side during the sweatshop era. 1992 Economist 10 Oct. (Suppl.) 12/2 Only the illegal immigrants from Malaysia, the Philippines, Thailand, Indonesia and the mainland..are willing to work for sweat-shop wages. 2009 T. Footman Noughties ix. 134 Anti-capitalists protested that this was..a means for Western businesses to take advantage of low wages, sweatshop conditions, non-unionized workforces and lax safety regulations. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2021; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1880
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