The Latin American press often referred to it as el pulpo ("the octopus"), accusing it of exploiting labourers, bribing officials, and influencing governments, especially during the period of Yankee "dollar diplomacy" in the early decades of the 20th century.
In many parts of the world, children are exploited as labourers or combatants in wars, and many children are abused each day in homes, schools, communities, institutions as well as on the streets and in cyberspace.
To make a profit, Marx argued, the capitalist appropriates this surplus value, thereby exploiting the labourer.
To 19th-century Populists, Wall Street was a symbol of the rapacious robber barons who exploited farmers and labourers.
Most notably, he replaced the Marxist concept of a proletarian "class" of industrial wage labourers exploited by the capitalist ruling class with the idea of a proletarian "nation" of agricultural peasants exploited by capitalist countries such as the United States.
He suggests that there is truth, though, in reports that many of the labourers are exploited.
In fast-growing cities, too, young labourers are exploited in construction sites, and used as near-slaves in households.Will the fact of a jointly awarded prize in any way encourage better relations between India and Pakistan?
Labourers on construction sites operated by BK Gulf, co-owned by Balfour Beatty, and Gulf Contracting Company (GCC), co-owned by Interserve, allege that they have been exploited and mistreated by labour supply companies hired by the firms to furnish construction sites in Doha with cheap manual workers.
Unlike the labouring urchins that Dickens documented in 1800s England, who were exploited by sinister and unscrupulous industrialists, today's child labourer is often self-employed, struggling to make a few bucks in an informal economy whose rules and rewards are ever changing.
Trafficked children are exploited as sex workers, child soldiers, and labourers.
