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Worries about school dance in exploitive places with no work ethics

Ross

I believe the answer is:

sweatshops

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'no work ethics' is the definition.
Although both the answer and definition are plural nouns, I don't understand how one could define the other.

'worries about school dance in exploitive places' is the wordplay.
'worries' becomes 'eats' (eating is a kind of worrying).
'about' is an insertion indicator.
'school' becomes 's'.
'dance in exploitive places' becomes 'whops' (I am not sure about this - if you are sure you should believe this answer much more).
's'+'whops'='swhops'
'eats' put inside 'swhops' is 'SWEATSHOPS'.

'with' acts as a link.

Can you help me to learn more?

(Other definitions for sweatshops that I've seen before include "Factories with low pay" , "abused workers here" .)

I've seen this clue in the Irish Times.
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