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Exploiting or Augmenting Labor?

American Economic Review: Insights
We show that existing “production approaches” to markdown estimation do not separately identify factor price markdowns from factor-augmenting productivity levels. We propose a method to overcome this challenge and apply it to study the effects of ownership liberalization in Chinese nonferrous metal industries.
Michael Rubens, Yingjie Wu, Mingzhi (Jimmy) Xu   +2 more
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Exploitation of Labor and Exploitation of Commodities [PDF]

Review of Radical Political Economics, 2013
In the standard Okishio-Morishima approach, the existence of profits is proved to be equivalent to the exploitation of labor. Yet, it can also be proved that the existence of profits is equivalent to the “exploitation” of any good. Labor and commodity exploitation are just different numerical representations of the productiveness of the economy.
Yoshihara, Naoki, Roberto Veneziani
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Human Trafficking: Exploiting Labor

2014
Abstract Human trafficking has become a major national and international problem, and while research suggests that trafficking in human beings for the purpose of cheap labor is higher than trafficking for the purposes of sexual exploitation, much less is understood about labor trafficking.
Noël Busch-Armendariz, Maura Nsonwu, Laurie Cook Heffron, Neely Mahapatra   +3 more
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State Effects on Labor Exploitation

Critique of Anthropology, 1998
■ The power of enforcing labor control and exploitation is often attrib uted to states. However, such claims need careful empirical and analytical verifi cation. In order to do this, we should view states 'from below', involving state agencies, state workers, and the policed population, elements that are ignored in most state theories.
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Consumer Finance and Labor Exploitation

Review of Radical Political Economics, 2018
Lending to the working class is increasingly becoming an essential feature in modern capitalism. Marxist theory, however, does not possess an adequate account of this phenomenon, particularly its effect on labor exploitation. This paper seeks to show how Marxist economic theory could understand and account for this form of finance.
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On the Exploitation of Cotton, Corn and Labor

Canadian Journal of Philosophy Supplementary Volume, 1989
There is no more intriguing or provocative argument in the Marxian corpus; it is the theoretical and rhetorical heart of Capital; not surprisingly, it is the locus of endless controversy: capitalist profit is possible, Marx argues, only because the capitalist is able to find on the market a unique commodity that possesses ‘the specific use-value ... of
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Patriarchy, Family Structure and the Exploitation of Women’s Labor

Journal of Economic Issues, 1988
The authors present a case for including the patriarchal model into the analysis of female labor force participation in the United States. They argue that only if it is assumed that the division of labor and distribution of goods and services are structured to benefit the male head of the family can various trends be explained including the low ...
J A, Heath, D H, Ciscel
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Gamification of Labor and the Charge of Exploitation

Journal of Business Ethics, 2016
Recently, business organizations have increasingly turned to a novel form of non-monetary incentives—that is, “gamification,” which refers to a motivation technique using video game elements, such as digital points, badges, and friendly competition in non-game contexts like workplaces.
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Exploitation of Child Labor and the Dynamics of Debt Bondage

Journal of Economic Growth, 2004
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Basu, Arnab K., Chau, Nancy H.
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Labor Exploitation

Abstract Drawing on the traditions of classical liberal class theory, individualist anarchism, and contemporary left-libertarianism, this chapter defends an account of exploitation that differs from the libertarian mainstream in two ways: recognizing problematic forms of exploitation that libertarians have reason to condemn even when ...
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