DCHP-3

sweat factory

Slang, Obs.
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a factory where workers are employed at low wages for long hours of toil. See also sweat factory. ow- The term derives from the practice of "sweaters" in the highly competitive middle-man shops in the garment industry driving underpaid needlewomen and tailors, often immigrants.

Quotations

1904
Manchester's Sweat Factory in New Westminster is still running full blast.