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sweating system

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From 300 U.S. 379 - West Coast Hotel Co. v. Parrish · 1937Most cited · 1,605 citing opinions

The exploiting of workers at wages so low as to be insufficient to meet the bare cost of living, thus making their very helplessness the occasion of a most injurious competition.