sweated labour

noun [U] UK disapproving (US sweat labor) WORKPLACE, SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY

Definition

› people who work for long hours and very low pay in an unhealthy situation: An increasing number of consumers today want to know that the products they buy were not produced by developing-world sweated labour.

(Definition of sweated labour noun from the Cambridge Business English Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

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