This paper provides an innovative axiomatic analysis of the notion of exploitation as the unequal exchange of labour …. An axiomatic characterisation of the class of definitions that satisfy a weak domain condition and the profit-exploitation … novel definition is presented which satisfies the PECP and allows one to generalise a number of key insights of exploitation …

This paper critically analyses the strongly subjectivist approach to exploitation theory recently proposed by Matsuo … exploitation index can be constructed. It is argued that a minimal objectivism is necessary in exploitation theory, whereby … related to the ‘New Interpretation’ ([1]; [3]). It is argued that it captures the core intuitions of exploitation theory and …

developed, which allows an explicit analysis of the core positive and normative intuitions behind the concept of exploitation …. Three main new axioms, called Labour Exploitation in Subsistence Economies, Relational Exploitation, and Feasibility of Non-Exploitation …, are presented and it is proved that they uniquely characterise a definition of exploitation conceptually related to the so …

and exploitation that directly contradict some of the authors’claims. …