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where your cheap shirt costs someone else everything they had to give.
originTerm coined in 1850s for piecework done in cramped rooms
the fireTriangle Shirtwaist blaze killed 146 behind locked doors
hidden mathWorkers often earn cents per garment sold for hundreds
global ghostEstimated tens of millions still labor in them today
sweating systemNamed for middlemen who squeezed wages from workers