Workers Who Benefit from the Exploitation of Other Workers

Workers Who Benefit from the Exploitation of Other Workers

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Often, all too often, global working-class solidarity remains fragile, conditional or fails to be realized in practice, whatever the lofty rhetoric may be.The present paper explores one here possible explanation: workers in the North profit from the exploitation of workers in the South through cheap commodities and services, and additional job opportunities.For example, wage-earners in the North can buy T-shirts so advantageously because their real wages are much higher than the real wages sukin body lotion woolworths of labourers in the Global South.This is what I would like to call a relational inequality within the world working class: some workers are better off because other workers are worse off.

The paper presents a very tentative historical outline of global relational inequality since the 1830s.