In each country I work, farmer exploitation, environmental mismanagement and animal welfare crowd my attention.
Work on exploitation arising from asymmetries of information is an important example.
"That's when they end up getting trafficked for sex work and exploitation," said Gemma Parkin from Save The Children.
"If you leave people without the means to support themselves, it leads people towards illegal work and exploitation – things which aren't good for society or the individual".
Not many companies can claim that inherent strength; nor can they devote much time to practicing, given that their day-to-day work is exploitation, not exploration.
Late in the book, telling of the process of photographing black men, she is blunt about the compromises her work makes: "Exploitation lies at the root of every great portrait, and all of us know it".
Deep in the Gallic soul resides the notion that work is exploitation, a ruse concocted by American robber barons, best regulated and minimized and offset by hours of idleness.
Regardless of whether circus work is exploitation and abuse, as some animal-protection groups have charged, there is an unquestionable majesty to the way an elephant debarks for a show: The sinuous trunk comes first through the doorway, like a periscope.
And I think that is the right question to zero in on, and we're going to spend more time on it both today and next time, because it really is important for Marx's argument to work that exploitation is not about cheating people.
One of Lupa's main themes in this work is exploitation: in Factory 2 he explores Warhol's use of his friends and hangers-on as sources for his own creativity (a "vampiric" tendency of which Lupa acknowledges he is frequently accused of himself), but he's also referencing the reciprocal exchange of gazes and power between celebrities and their audiences.
