Exploitation

“The Department of Homeland Security defines human trafficking as a “modern-day form of slavery involving the illegal trade of people for exploitation or commercial gain.” In 2012, The International Labor Organization estimated that there are 20.9 million human trafficking victims worldwide.” (Alvarez, 2016) After reading this article I feel the main ideas conveyed are that the human sex trafficking industry is growing rapidly no matter how much law enforcement tries to control it. “The Victims…

of people “Bloodsuckers.” The Pope truly condemns these sort of employers for they live on people’s blood. It is a major exploitation and a mortal sin. “Those poor people become slaves. We think of the here and now, the same thing happens all over the world.” – Pope Francis The main problem that Pope Francis finds with “civilised slavery” is that it involves the exploitation of people. “We might think that slaves no longer exist: they exist.” Although…

the laborers who were the proletariats. Due to their power and wealth, the bourgeoisies could control everything including churches. Proletarians had little or no say in any political issues. These two social classes relationship is based upon exploitation and class conflict, one dependent upon the other for employment and the other dependent on the other for a source of profit. Class conflict arose because the Bourgeoisie had to pay the proletariat less than the value they produced to make…

the tourist industry which the fishers view as invasive. This is contrasted with exploitation on part of the tourist industry in Bayahibe, where the entire village was physically uprooted from a beautiful beachside area to a rocky harbor unfit for the “small-scale subsistence” practices the locals once employed to make a living (Carrier and Macleod 321). Carrier and Macleod continue to examine environmental exploitation in a socio-cultural context through providing examples of their interactions…

edge. Some of the poses seem causal; others, carefully directed” (Woodward, 2015). In other words, her photography might be viewed obscene and distasteful for viewers due to the amount of child nudity exhibited. Her photography encourages child exploitation and child abuse because many of the photos are posed and not natural compared to traditional child photography. For example, “Photographers shooting children in the nude […] are the usual suspects [for child abuse and child pornography]”…

According to Ridpath (2008), the increase in public popularity of intercollegiate athletic had opened the door to the commercialization of college sports. Excessive commercialism, unethical behavior, and the exploitation of student athletes are said to be instrumental detractors from the overall mission of higher education (Weight et al., 2015). This perception is prevalent by some of today’s faculty (Ridpath, 2008). However, when it comes to views on the commercialization of intercollegiate…

The solidarity created between women of different privileges can be interpreted in several ways. Some women may use it as an exploitation of labor, causing harm to a migrant woman. Anderson explains the term, “maternalism” and how it applies to the migrant worker-employer dynamic. Employers use their superiority over migrant workers as a way of taking care of them. An example of the dynamic between the women is when the wealthier woman takes care of her hired help in a way that a mother would…

All is well with the Lulla inhabitants. However, a turning point comes when Thenga Jani flees with a Christian girl Santosh Kumari. Thenga Jani, the only son of Ramchandra Muduli, the headman of Lulla village, is betrothed to Saria Dann, the only daughter of Hari Jani, a respectable elder of the community. But Thenga falls in love with Santosh Kumari, a Christian Domb girl and violates the tribal codes. They decide to run away to Assam to work on tea estates and plan to build their dream home in…

the Government, force upon Indian peasants “government funded commercial and technological agriculture with statist conceptions of national development” (Roy & Borowiak 2003, p57). Shiva interprets industrialism as “the birth place of resource exploitation” and that Monsanto uses modern science as provision for ethical and cognitive license…

This essay will discuss the major features and debates around the Marxist approach to society, where society is based upon conflict between groups, such as the ‘haves’ and the ‘have-nots’ (Sociology Central, 2005). It will do this by going into details of Marxism and criticism from the 1930’s to the 1980’s. This will include, but is not limited to the theory of hegemony by Gramsci; Dunayevskaya’s discovery of state capitalism in the Soviet Union; Baran and Sweezy on monopoly capitalism and…