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sweated labour

Meaning of "sweated labour" in the English dictionary

DICTIONARY

PRONUNCIATION OF SWEATED LABOUR

ˈswetɪd ˈleɪbə


GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF SWEATED LABOUR

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Sweated labour is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES SWEATED LABOUR MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Sweatshop

Sweatshop is a negatively connoted term for a workplace that has socially unacceptable working conditions. The work may be difficult, dangerous or be paid a wage that is not commensurate. Workers in 'sweatshops' may work long hours for low pay, regardless of laws mandating overtime pay or a minimum wage; child labor laws may also be violated.

Definition of sweated labour in the English dictionary

The definition of sweated labour in the dictionary is workers forced to work in poor conditions for low pay. Other definition of sweated labour is the work done by such workers.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH SWEATED LABOUR

antilabor · belabour · caber · ceiba · kebar · labor · labour · labours · Makeba · neighbor · neighbour · nonlabor · overlabor · overlabour · prolabor · saber · sabre · tabor · weber · zeitgeber

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE SWEATED LABOUR

sweat off · sweat one´s guts out · sweat out · sweat pants · sweat suit · sweat-stained · sweatband · sweatbox · sweated · sweated goods · sweater · sweater dress · sweater girl · sweaterdress · sweatier · sweatiest · sweatily · sweatiness · sweating · sweating sickness

WORDS THAT END LIKE SWEATED LABOUR

aesthetic labour · bonded labour · casual labour · child labour · direct labour · division of labour · emotional labour · forced labour · free labour · harbour · hard labour · immigrant labour · indirect labour · lump labour · manual labour · New Labour · next door neighbour · organized labour · skilled labour · slave labour

Synonyms and antonyms of sweated labour in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «sweated labour» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF SWEATED LABOUR

Find out the translation of sweated labour to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of sweated labour from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «sweated labour» in English.
zh

Translator English - Chinese

血汗劳工
1,325 millions of speakers
es

Translator English - Spanish

trabajo sudado
570 millions of speakers
en

English

sweated labour
510 millions of speakers
hi

Translator English - Hindi

पसीना बहाया श्रम
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

العمل عرقت
280 millions of speakers
ru

Translator English - Russian

потел труда
278 millions of speakers
pt

Translator English - Portuguese

trabalho suado
270 millions of speakers
bn

Translator English - Bengali

শ্রান্ত শ্রম
260 millions of speakers
fr

Translator English - French

travail sué
220 millions of speakers
ms

Translator English - Malay

Buruh yang kering
190 millions of speakers
de

Translator English - German

geschwitzt Arbeits
180 millions of speakers
ja

Translator English - Japanese

汗労働
130 millions of speakers
ko

Translator English - Korean

땀 노동
85 millions of speakers
jv

Translator English - Javanese

Nyenyet
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

lao động đổ mồ hôi
80 millions of speakers
ta

Translator English - Tamil

வியர்வை உழைப்பு
75 millions of speakers
mr

Translator English - Marathi

घाम मलम
75 millions of speakers
tr

Translator English - Turkish

Terli emek
70 millions of speakers
it

Translator English - Italian

lavoro sudato
65 millions of speakers
pl

Translator English - Polish

pocił pracy
50 millions of speakers
uk

Translator English - Ukrainian

потів праці
40 millions of speakers
ro

Translator English - Romanian

forței de muncă transpirat
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

ίδρωσε εργασίας
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

gesweet arbeid
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

sweated arbetskraft
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

svettet arbeidskraft
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of sweated labour

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «SWEATED LABOUR»

Principal search tendencies and common uses of sweated labour
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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about sweated labour

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SWEATED LABOUR»

Discover the use of sweated labour in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to sweated labour and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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A Fair Day’s Wage for a Fair Day’s Work?: Sweated Labour and ...
Adopting a broad national and long-run approach, this book examines the issue of sweated labour and the legal control of low pay in Britain between 1840 and 1930.
Ms Sheila Blackburn, 2013
2
Modernism, Labour and Selfhood in British Literature and ...
Deborah Thom has argued that between 1900 and 1920 'visual and verbal representations of the working woman changed' in such a way that women's labour became overwhelmingly associated with the evils of sweated labour.2' ' Sweated ...
Morag Shiach, 2004
3
The Rise and Fall of Art Needlework: Its Socio-economic and ...
Sweated Labour and the Need for Radical Change The putting out system originated with cottage industry, whereby a merchant or his agent would take materials to a household to be made up and collected within an allotted time, quotas and ...
Linda Cluckie, 2008
4
Not Only The Dangerous Trades: Women's Work And Health In ...
92 Feltes t19921 'Misery or the production of misery: defining sweated labour in 1890' p.441. 93 See Stedman-Jones t1984l Outcaste London: A Study of the Relationship between the Classes in Victorian Society. 94 Schmeichen t 1984l ...
Barbara Harrison, 2005
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A Feminist Glossary of Human Geography
The term sweated labour is used to describe a system of subcontracting which first emerged in Britain during the nineteenth century. Within the London clothing trade, for example, a wholesale clothier would sell cut pieces of cloth to the lowest ...
Joanne Sharp, Linda McDowell, 2014
6
London in the Age of Industrialisation: Entrepreneurs, ...
T On the existence of sweated labour before Henry Mayhew When Mayhew was doing his rounds for the Morning Chronicle during the year before the Great Exhibition, the sweated domestic workers whom he interviewed knew precisely when ...
L. D. Schwarz, 1992
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Women and Work in Britain Since 1840
The House of Lords Select Committee on Women's Work 1888–9 and the Select Committee on Homework 1907 both sought to define sweated labour. 49 50 51 issues. The ones mentioned here are from. 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 D. Bythell The ...
Gerry Holloway, 2007
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Governance, Industry and Labour Markets in Britain and ...
... with the sole exception of the extension of public education, the most successful piece of social legislation of the past quarter of a century'.1 Others who had led the campaign against 'sweated' labour before the first world war concurred.
Robert Salais, Noel Whiteside, Professor of Comparative Public Policy and Senior Fellow at the Institute of Governance and Public Management Noel Whiteside, 2005
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The Crisis of Conservatism: The Politics, Economics and ...
A paradigm case of the Conservative stance was one of the most persistent social concerns of the period, the issue of sweated labour. The Conservatives' attitude to anti-sweating legislation in itself will be discussed in more detail below ; here ...
E.H.H. Green, 2005
10
Official Papers of Alfred Marshall: A Supplement
11o; and public enterprise working conditions 127-8 sweated labour, and factory inspection 217. 218 symmetallism 68 tabular standard of value 68 tariff debate ; tariff reform 309-10, 311, 5li, 356 Taussig, F.W. Sin taxation: and imperial ...
Alfred Marshall, Peter D. Groenewegen, 1996

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «SWEATED LABOUR»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term sweated labour is used in the context of the following news items.
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Scottish National Party's anti-austerity hypocrisy exposed
Now the third-largest party in the House of Commons after Labour, the SNP is .... which rests on a brutal regime of sweated labour and is struggling to retain ... «World Socialist Web Site, Jul 15»
2
Matchwomen's Festival: Women have united against injustice …
The appalling conditions endured in this “sweated labour” were exposed by journalist and activist Annie Besant in an article with the sensational title “White ... «Morning Star Online, Jul 15»
3
Eamonn McCann: Likely Sepp Blatter will win re-election despite …
Its citizens don't do manual labour. Of a 1.8 ... footballers or for the workers upon whose sweated labour the success of the entire World Cup operation depends. «Irish Times, May 15»
4
The rebels who brought London to a standstill
... Chief Rabbi Adler's Duke Street synagogue, having asked him to deliver a sermon on sweated labour, unemployment and the demand for an eight-hour day. «Jewish Chronicle, Mar 15»
5
Why is there a need for 24 hour childcare?
Moreover, this preserves the absurd idea that women's paid labour is only “pin money” ... Think about sweated labour in the garment trades doing sewing, while ... «Socialist Resistance, Mar 15»
6
A socialist world is possible
The bosses don't need a penny more - they are gorging themselves, accumulating greater and greater piles of wealth through the sweated labour and poverty ... «Socialist Party, Oct 14»
7
China's workers are turning from analogue slaves into digital rebels
This “normalisation” of labour relations is not threatened by the outbreak of strikes ... look like 19th-century issues: poverty, sweated labour, corrupt management. «The Guardian, Sep 14»
8
The strike that threatened an English summer
Its ball manufacturers employed several hundred people at the time, many of whom complained of being treated like "sweated labour". "The power of the union ... «BBC News, Apr 14»
9
Dr Judith Rowbotham: When Nottingham grappled with child labour
That report highlighted Nottingham as one of the worst locations in the country for the use of children in “sweated labour” – work for long hours at low pay in poor ... «Nottingham Post, Mar 14»
10
Development by the Elites, For the Elites
UN Millennium Project director Jeffrey Sachs defends sweated labour across the global South, saying the “sweatshops are the first rung on the ladder out of ... «CounterPunch, Mar 14»
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