A sweatshop is a factory or workshop, especially in the clothing industry, where manual workers are employed at very low wages for long hours and under poor conditions. It is described as a setting 'that violates more than one federal state labor law governing minimum wage and overtime, child labor, industrial homework, occupational safety and health, workers' compensation, or industry regulation.' Sweatshops are reminders that the desire for economic wealth can have a dangerous underside.