Exploitation means use, use in the positive sense for instance. However the term means pejorativ turned inconsiderate utilization. With the same meaning also the foreign word Exploitation becomes related.

Exploitation (social)

Exploitation by slavery

The exploitation of humans as slaves was already in the antique one (for instance in Sumer, in the antique Greece, in the Roman realm) well-known. The Fronarbeit in the Middle Ages is similarly stored and the body characteristic in the early modern times as well as in the Islamic world.

To massive employments of slave workers it came in the Plantagen in the new world, until the slavery was forbidden there.

The situation of the numerous forced laborers in the Soviet punishing camps (GULAG), in the "“reeducating camps"” of Eastern Europe and China as well as the situation of the prisoners in the German concentration camps and extermination camps of the third realm corresponds likewise to the exploitation by slavery (see also: Destruction by work, Siberia, Kolyma, Zwangsarbeit in the time of the national socialism).

Until few decades ago children from poor families on farms in upper swabia and Switzerland, the "“swabia children in such a way specified"” and/or "“thing children"” hired themselves. Still nowadays Switzerland refuses paying remuneration or smart money.

Also nowadays there is still illegal slave trade, particularly in some states of Africa, Asia and the Near East (see also: The Sudan, Darfur). One can likewise call the Kinderarbeit in many states of the third world a form of the exploitation.

Also one can regard the obligation prostitution, the white slave trade, the woman trade and the child trade (for example from Eastern Europe) as "“modern slavery"”.

• Slavery, slave trade, Mediterraner slave trade, eastAfrican slave trade, triangle trade
• Fronarbeit,
• Kinderarbeit

Exploitation of worker

Some humans regard the Lohnarbeit as a form of the exploitation, with which the employee is completely dependent on the employer.

• Social question in the Germany 19. Century
• the disproportion of wages and work; "“The exploitation of humans by humans"”. The exploitation is based in capitalism according to Karl Marx on the appropriation of the increase in value.
• Wage slavery
• Kinderarbeit

Exploitation of children

World-wide year by year more than 2 million children into the commercial sexual exploitation are forced. The USA proceed from world-wide estimated annually several millions new cases of child prostitution particularly in the development countries. It becomes estimated that criminal rings annually convert than 11 billion euro with child prostitution and Kinderpornografie more world-wide. There are not exact data concerning the number of the tourists, who exploit children sexually. Rough estimations proceed from approximately 10,000 tourists from Germany.

Also the utilization of the worker of thing children in Switzerland and the swabia children in upper swabia could call "“modern slavery"”.

Until today there are cases of Kinderarbeit in many development and developing countries, for example in the (India), with the production of fire works (China) or on Plantagen (Africa and Latin America).

• Child trade

Exploitation of women

World-wide there are many cases of obligatorily kidnapped girls and women, of sexual abuse and obligation prostitution as well as obligation marrying.

Particularly girls and women from poor conditions, developing countries or wrecked families are endangered.

• White slave trade, woman trade
• Obligation prostitution
• Slave trade
• Sexual abuse, rape
• Obligation marriage

Exploitation of socially weak ones

Some regard also the Lohnarbeit (for example the dependence of the employee on the employer), the social inequality between arm and realm as well as the consequences of the national bureaucracy and insolvency as exploitation.

Also the poverty downward gradient between the industrialized countries and the developing countries and the today's economic system as well as the consequences of the globalization are called of many exploitation.

• Debts, insolvency
• Poverty, hunger
• Industrialized country, developing country, third world
• Economics, economic system, globalization

Exploitation (ecological)

• Production of by non-lasting predatory exploitation (for example wide Rodung without reforestation)

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