economic exploitation
Systemic wealth draining
Economic exploitation is the unfair extraction of value from workers, resources, or vulnerable populations for another's profit.
It typically involves a power imbalance—employers paying wages far below the value workers produce, corporations depleting natural resources without adequate compensation to local communities, or predatory lending that traps borrowers in debt.
The factory's economic exploitation of migrant workers drew international condemnation.
The term carries moral judgment, implying that the gain is illegitimate or unjust.
- child laborMinors performing paid work
- forced laborCompelled toil, no consent
- migrant workersPeople moving for jobs
- capitalismPrivate profit-based economy
- debt bondageCoerced labor repaying loans
wage theft · colonialism · human trafficking · social inequality · predatory lending · subjugation · neoliberalism · race to the bottom · monopolies · poverty · imperialism · maquiladoras · company town · resource extraction · blood diamonds · indentured servitude · enclosure · sweatshop
- Colonial KoreaJapanese occupation, Japanese rule, colonial rule, occupation period, independence movement
- Japanese Empireimperial expansion, Manchuria, Korea, Taiwan, China
- labor fictionfactory workers, labor strikes, labor movement, working class, labor
- WWI Occupationmilitary occupation, German occupation, occupied territory, Belgium, France
- neocolonialismneocolonialism, debt trap, resource extraction, foreign debt, client state
- colonialismcolony, colonization, colonial rule, colonial powers, colonizer
economic exploitationfair trade
Equitable exchange between parties
fair compensation · economic justice · fair labor practices · living wage · profit sharing
economic exploitationeconomic empowerment
Gaining control over resources
economic development · worker empowerment · sustainable development · mutual aid · microfinance
economic exploitationethical business
Commerce following moral principles
social enterprise · ethical sourcing · corporate social responsibility · philanthropy · sustainable business
economy, exploit, economic, economics, economize, exploited, exploitation, economizing, exploits