sweat shop

sweat shop
A business whose employees are overworked and paid low wages, or a place where employees are required to work to an extent hardly endurable, and in the public mind the term imputes unsavory and illegal business practices. Masters v. Sun Mfg. Co., 237 Mo.App. 240,165 S.W.2d 701, 703.
Sweat shops resulted in the enactment of wage and hour laws, child labor laws, minimum wage laws, etc

Black's law dictionary. . 1990.

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