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GCSE Sociology · key term
In Marxist theory, owners benefiting from workers’ labour by keeping part of the value that workers produce.
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Revise: Socio-economic Class DivisionsMarx understood this relationship as exploitation. Owners have an interest in increasing profits, while workers have an interest in better pay and conditions. Their interests therefore conflict, even when individual employers and workers get along.
An unequal relationship in which one person or group benefits from another's work at their expense.
Link Delphy and Leonard to Familiar Exploitation (1992), feminism and the argument that men are the main beneficiaries of women's work in the family.
Keep the thinkers distinct: Delphy and Leonard emphasise exploitation and family hierarchy; Oakley criticises the conventional family and its idealised image.
Link exploitation to workers being paid less than the value they produce and owners keeping the profit.
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In Marxism, the process through which owners profit from workers' labour while workers do not receive a fair share of the value they produce.
Benefiting unfairly from another person’s work or disadvantaged position.
In Marxist theory, the process through which owners pay workers less than the value they produce and keep the profit.
