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super-exploitative

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  • When Tennessee Ernie Ford gave the full weight of his bass-baritone to "Sixteen Tons" and boomed that he owed his soul to the company store, the phrase evoked images of stooped miners living in tar-paper shacks under what Hardy Green calls the "super-exploitative conditions of life in a coal-mining company town."

    The Labor of Living 2010

  • "We remain of the view that apartheid, with its form of institutionalised racism, masked its real content and substance - the perpetuation of a super-exploitative cheap labour system."

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1997

  • Such investment capital is principally attracted to South Africa by the above average yield of between 12 per cent and 20 per cent, which is made possible by the super-exploitative apartheid system.

    APARTHEID: THE INTERNATIONAL ASPECTS 1973

  • On 12 March 1973 the Guardian began a series of articles exposing the extent of British business complicity in the maintenance of the super-exploitative nature of the system of apartheid.

    ANC Letters and Telegrams to the United Nations THE AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS 1952

  • [6] This layer, for example, often no longer engages in direct mining activities, but rather hires poor "cooperative" miners at super-exploitative wages.

    MRZine.org 2010

  • The instructor told the class that the practice was inherently "super-exploitative."

    "BANPC" via James Bow in Google Reader Suzanne 2010

  • The instructor told the class that the practice was inherently "super-exploitative."

    Ontario Blogs Feed 2010

  • Millions are stuck in super-exploitative arrangements.

    IOL: News 2010

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