Exploitation: From Practice to Theory (Studies in Social and Global Justice) - Hardcover

Monique Deveaux; Vida Panitch

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1786602032 ISBN 13: 9781786602039

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield International, 2017

Synopsis

Contemporary theoretical discussions of exploitation are dominated by thinkers in the liberal and Marxian traditions. Exploitation: From Practice to Theory, pushes past these traditional and binary explanations, to focus on unjust practises that both depend on and perpetuate inequalities central to exploitation.

Using real-world examples, the chapters in this collection address key questions, including, in what ways are exploitation practices globalised, racialized and gendered? How do cases of organ selling, price gouging and commercial gestational surrogacy change our understandings of exploitation? What possible social and economic remedies do these new conceptions prescribe?

Case studies in this volume span the globe, dealing with developed and developing countries alike and in a variety of national and transnational contexts.

About this title

About the Author

Monique Deveaux is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Guelph, Canada, where she holds the Canada Research Chair in Ethics and Global Social Change.

Vida Panitch is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Carleton University, Canada.

Edition details

• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield International
• Publication date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1786602032
• ISBN 13: 9781786602039
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 298