Word: exploitationism
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One hundred and sixty-six years ago this week, Lord Palmerston, the great British Foreign Secretary, sent a letter to the Imperial Chinese government that paved the way for the 1840-42 Anglo-Chinese conflict, the “Opium War.” It’s a brilliantly...
Furthermore, so long as we continue to be beholden to multinationals to obtain even basic necessities, we continue to reinforce an economic structure that systematically produces massive inequality and exploitation. While Nike or Coca-Cola may serve as figureheads, society’s ills are not the result of the...
Only one of three Harvard University Dining Services (HUDS) three contracts with the Coca-Cola Company will expire soon enough for Harvard’s Student Labor Action Movement (SLAM) to target this semester. Of the three, Harvard’s contract with Coke’s subsidiary juice company...
Jackson is decent, but the role is nothing he hasn’t done before. And better. Even within Jackson’s confused-cop-dealing-with-a-troubled-woman-in-an-exploitation-flick oeuvre, pick up Phillip Kaufman’s “Twisted” instead. And...
In developing his answer, Sauper provides a luminous critique of the dark face of globalization, showing how those that prepare tasty fillets for Parisian restaurants cannot afford food for themselves. The recurrent cycles of exploitation and “unnatural selection,” as the Washington Post calls them...