As some journalists strove to change working conditions, the term "sweatshop" came to refer to a broader set of workplaces whose conditions were considered inferior.
An almost exclusively female occupation, laundresses worked 12 to 14 hours a day for very low pay in very hot buildings (which led to the origination of the term sweatshop).
He is known for speaking out against sweatshops, corporate greed and the appalling living and working conditions of impoverished workers around the world.