| 词汇 | sweatshop |
| 词源 | sweatshop. Sweatshop, for “clothing factories where people work long hours for little pay,” is first recorded in 1892 in America, but the seed of the expression can be found in Henry Mayhew’s London Labour and the London Poor (1851–61): “I have many a time heard both husband and wife . . . who were sweating for a gorgeous clothes’ emporium, say that they had not time to clean.” |
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