In the early 1900s, thousands of immigrants labored in New Yorks Lower East Side sweatshops, enduring work environments that came to be seen as among the worst

"In hard-hitting words and pictures, No Sweat surveys the chasm between the glamour of the catwalk and the squalor of the sweatshop." -- Book Jacket.

The nature of sweating and the origins of low pay legislation are of fundamental social, economic and moral importance. Although difficult to define, sweating,