Sweaters

A tailor hired to work overtime at home. An employer or supervisor who overworks and underpays his employees.

"The sweater may employ only two or three persons, or he may have two or three score in his service; but the great bulk of the sweated class work for small masters and in rooms or shops where from two or three to a dozen or twenty are employed."

Earl Dunraven, Draft. Rep. (1890).