Sweatshops

![CDATA[Sweatshops are one of the most paradoxical organizational and production forms of industrial capitalism. Existing prior to the rise of the factory system, the sweatshop is often depicted in imagery and language that would have it as, if not precapitalist, at the very least parochial, arcane, and part of a chaotic, disorganized, unregulated system of production. However, its longevity, its insertion and embeddedness in diverse structures of production, and its current global geographic distribution call for a reevaluation of the sweatshop. The apparent reemergence of the sweatshop since the 1980s carries some continuities with the earlier period of sweatshop production from the 1850s to the 1930s, while demonstrating significant differences.]]