Word: exploitationism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Exploitation of labor continued for generations. As late as the 1890s, Henry C. Frick, after breaking a strike at the Carnegie Steel Works in Homestead, Pa., reduced wages and re-established an 84-hour work week. At the other end of the scale, Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller and other...
> If any community has reason to be sensitive about offshore oil exploitation, it is Santa Barbara, Calif., scene of a disastrous oil spill in 1969. But last week the voters of Santa Barbara County, by a narrow 35,500 to 34,700, turned down a chance to keep oil development...
The best nursing homes deprive their patients of some independence. The worst deprive them of far more: their resources, rights and, ultimately, their humanity. They are killer institutions. An investigation still under way in New York has dug out evidence of widespread abuse and exploitation of nursing-home patients. Inspectors...
LEGAL SERVICES. Old people in need of legal services to protect their rights to housing, Social Security or medical benefits, safeguard their assets and guard against exploitation by the unscrupulous, can usually obtain them through local legal-aid societies, which provide free or low-cost legal guidance. More specialized help...
Near Los Angeles, a 20-sq.-mi. depression has formed around the Wilmington oilfield after 35 years of exploitation. At the center of the great bowl lies the Long Beach Naval Shipyard, where a 29-ft. decline in the land level has forced the Navy, oil companies and others to...