Word: exploitationism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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The number of mouths the world's farmers feed cannot increase indefinitely. Neither unprecedented generosity by the wealthy nations, nor maximum exploitation of known farming techniques, nor anticipated scientific breakthroughs can win what Rural Economies Expert Egbert deVries calls the "stork-farmer race." Unless the experts are underestimating the...
We witness a struggle between Deeley and Anna for the possession of Kate. Deeley knows the emptiness of his marriage with Kate, and he is driven to the wall by Anna's sinister exploitation of this weakness, in order to win Kate back to the sensual and aesthetic lesbian relationship...
It is a mistake to assume that low profits for farmers do not mean that workers are not exploited. Farmers' low profits may be due to monopolistic control of the marketing or processing companies' high interest rates and high land rents. A better indicator of workers' exploitation is profits plus...
The fate of farm laborers in northern California--wages, health, housing--is better than in other states. Better, for instance, than on the eastern seaboard. This doesn't make that fate any better. Interstate migrancy has diminished due partly to mechanization, and partly to other forms of labor exploitation such...
I know what the "unionization privileges" (sic) of California and Arizona are. I have some knowledge of the history of agricultural developments in the Golden State, of its undemocratic system of land ownership and farming. The story of migratory labor from the early Chinese to the Mexicans is as old...