sweatee

Noun

 * 1)  A subcontractor doing piece work in the tailoring trade.
 * 2) * 1894, New York (State) Bureau of Mediation and Arbitration, Annual Report (volumes 7-8, page 158)
 * If the piecework system had not existed there never would have been any sweatees. The men who are sweaters, I am sorry to say, are men who formerly belonged to our union.
 * If the piecework system had not existed there never would have been any sweatees. The men who are sweaters, I am sorry to say, are men who formerly belonged to our union.