A sweatshop is defined as a factory that violates two or more labor laws. This could be anything pertaining to child labor, wages and benefits and/or working hours. From the outside, it could look completely legitimate, and they often do. But if they require their employees to work 12-hour days, 7 days a week for meager pay that isn’t even enough to feed them, then it’s a sweatshop regardless of the actual working conditions.