exploitation

Examples of exploitation in the following topics:

• World-Systems Theory

  • World Systems Theory posits that there is a world economic system in which some countries benefit while others are exploited.
  • World Systems Theory, like dependency theory, suggests that wealthy countries benefit from other countries and exploit those countries' citizens.
  • Core countries are capital intensive, have high wages and high technology production patterns and lower amounts of labor exploitation and coercion.
  • Semiperipheral countries exploit peripheral countries, just as core countries exploit both semiperipheral and peripheral countries.

• Archaic Hunters and Gatherers

  • The Archaic stage was characterized by subsistence economies supported through the exploitation of nuts, seeds, and shellfish.
  • Beginning around 4000 BCE across what is now the southeastern United States, people exploited wetland resources to create large shell middens.
  • There is evidence of large-scale exploitation of oysters starting around 3000 BCE.

• Competitive Dynamics

  • First, profiling can reveal strategic weaknesses in rivals that the firm may exploit.
  • Offensive strategy can be implemented more quickly in order to exploit opportunities and capitalize on strengths.
  • Similarly, defensive strategy can be employed more deftly in order to counter the threat of rival firms exploiting the firm's own weaknesses.

• State-Centered Theories

  • This latter period reflects a belief in state-centered theories of inequality, as the state sought to regulate the economy to reduce the exploitation of workers.
  • State-centered theories of inequality critique market-driven ones on the basis that capitalists embroiled in the free-market will act to increase their own wealth, exploiting the lower classes.
  • Accordingly, these theories propose that states should enact policies to prevent exploitation and promote the equal distribution of goods and wages.

• The Overall Strategy

  • A strategy is a plan of action designed to gain a position of advantage, or to best exploit emerging possibilities toward some desired goal.
  • Strategy is all about gaining (or being prepared to gain) a position of advantage over adversaries, or best exploiting emerging possibilities.

• Complications of Globalization

  • First and foremost is the exploitation of cheap labor.
  • Yet still, due to regulatory environments lacking proper standards and business practices pursuing the path of least resistance, this exploitation continues.
  • The destruction of natural resource pools through corporate exploitation is relatively common, and the propensity to sell products that are clearly unhealthy has picked up across the globe (i.e. fast food, alcohol, cigarettes, etc.).

• Cancer and Translational Control

  • Some new medicines, called targeted therapies, have exploited the overexpression of a specific protein or the mutation of a gene to develop a new medication to treat disease.
  • Target therapies exploit the overexpression of a specific protein or gene mutation to develop new medications against the specific cancer.

• A Practical Aside - Orders of Magnitude

  • A glance at the following table shows that some of the physical constants are easier to remember than others, but one can exploit the relationships between them a remember only a few key numbers to obtain the the rest.

• Age and Race

  • There is evidence that black senior citizens are more likely to be abused - both physically and psychologically and suffer greater financial exploitation than do white senior citizens.Further, recent demographic profiles suggest that social aging varies across racial groups, and demonstrates that minority elders (especially Hispanic and African American identified) typically enter later life with less education, less financial resources, and less access to health care than their white counterparts.Finally, researchers have noted that minority groups' greater likelihood of facing patterns of structural disadvantage throughout the life course, such as racial discrimination, poverty, and fewer social, political, and economic resources on average, create significant racial variations in the stages or age-related trajectories of racial minorities and majorities that may be observed at all points of the life span, and contribute to disparities in health, income, self-perceived age, mortality, and morbidity.

• Global Inequality

  • Countries have developed at an uneven rate because wealthy countries have exploited poor countries in the past and today through foreign debt and transnational corporations (TNCs).
  • This theory, similar to dependency theory, suggests that wealthy countries benefit from other countries and also exploit their citizens.
  • Semiperipheral countries exploit peripheral countries, just as core countries exploit both semiperipheral and peripheral countries.
  • In many factories, workers are often exploited by low wages, long hours, and poor working conditions.