Word: exploitationism
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Wal-Mart is more than a particularly egregious violator of workers’ rights. It has become a symbol of corporate excess. A union at Wal-Mart would show that workers can succeed against even the most powerful of corporate giants. Just an attempt to organize Wal-Mart employees would...
The ending seems to cast Troy in a sympathetic light, an odd shift from the pervasive anti-Troy sentiment of the rest of the movie. Maybe the directors themselves do not know what to feel about their ex-friend. But after watching one-and-a-half hours of Troyâ?...
With the huge success of Apple’s iTunes, we’ve only begun to see the potential for capitalizing on legal Internet music downloads. Users sign up for the service and have access to millions of music files instantly. iTunes has proven to be a boon to...
When it’s that easy to play the initiative game, exploitation comes naturally. In the same PPIC report, it was noted that well-financed interest groups spent a record high of $140 million in the 1996 elections because no spending limits exist in initiative campaigns. While two out...
Skip it, and go instead for Kuper's far more interesting adaptation of Upton Sinclair's 1906 novel "The Jungle" (NBM; 48 pages; $16). When first published, its exposure of the Chicago meatpacking industry's outrageous conditions created a scandal that resulted in the passage of the Pure Food and...