Exploitees vs. Exploiters: Dynamics of Exploitation

TL;DR

This paper explores how workforce exploitation can occur when vulnerable groups voluntarily seek employment, highlighting the systemic and opportunistic nature of exploitation within labor markets.

Contribution

It offers a new perspective on exploitation dynamics, emphasizing voluntary participation of vulnerable groups in exploitative labor structures.

Findings

Exploitation can occur even when workers voluntarily seek employment.

Systemic and opportunistic exploitation are both significant factors.

Vulnerable groups may inadvertently perpetuate exploitation.

Abstract

Either saying that the market is structured to promote workforce exploitation in some sections or the people who participate there benefit from the existing structure and exploit, exploitation happens - systematically or opportunistically. This research presents a perspective on how workforce exploitation may occur when vulnerable groups voluntarily seek employment in the labor market.