sweated labour — ➔ labour * * * sweated labour UK US noun [U] UK DISAPPROVING (US sweat labor) WORKPLACE, SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY ► people who work for long hours and very low pay in an unhealthy situation: »An increasing number of consumers today want to know that … Financial and business terms
sweated labour — BrE sweated labor AmE n [U] 1.) hard work done for very low wages, especially in a factory 2.) the people who do this work … Dictionary of contemporary English
sweated labour — BrE sweated labor AmE noun (U) 1 hard work done for very low wages, especially in a factory 2 the people who do this work … Longman dictionary of contemporary English
sweated labour — UK [ˌswetɪd ˈleɪbə(r)] / US [ˌswetəd ˈleɪbər] noun [uncountable] hard work that people are paid very little for, or the people who do this type of work … English dictionary
sweated labour — /swɛtəd ˈleɪbə/ (say swetuhd laybuh) noun 1. work which is required to be sustained for long hours at low pay. 2. a work force subjected to such exploitative work practices …
labour — la‧bour [ˈleɪbə ǁ ər] , labor noun [uncountable] 1. work involving a lot of physical or mental effort: • The garage charges £65 an hour for labour. • those involved in repetitive, unskilled manual labour (= work that involves using your … Financial and business terms
sweated — adjective of or denoting manual workers employed for long hours and under poor conditions: sweated labour … English new terms dictionary
sweated — /ˈswɛtəd / (say swetuhd) adjective 1. made by underpaid workers. 2. underpaid and overworked: *The pay was a halfpenny a card, but it was not such sweated labour as it sounds. –criena rohan, 1963. 3. having poor working conditions …
labor, labour — I n. work 1) to do, perform labor, labour 2) manual, physical; menial; painstaking; productive; sweated (BE), sweatshop; skilled; unskilled labor, labour 3) a division of labor, labour 4) (misc.) (a) division of labor, labour; a labor, labour of… … Combinatory dictionary
British working class — The Great War cost Britain 750 000 thousand lives and injured 1.6 million [ Eric Hopkins, A social History of the English working class 1815 1945, Hodder and Stoughton 1979, p211.] , of these casualties the majority were of working class origin,… … Wikipedia
