worker exploitation theme
The director of some facility treats their employees in a way that is considered unfair, which can happen if the employees for one reason or another are not free and able to quit and find employment elsewhere.
9 total · 1 choice · 4 major · 4 minor
| Story | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| ds94x16 | choice | Quark exploited his workers and they made a union |
| movie: Eden Log (2007) | major | A revelation of the story is that a nefarious corporation was exploiting immigrants by forcing them to toil in mines with a false promise of eventually getting citizenship. |
| movie: Metropolis (1927) | major | The Metropolis inhabitants oppressed the working underclass. |
| movie: The Death Ray (1925) | major | workers were exploited in a factory; fascist factory owners ordered a bombing raid on worker settlement that would have killed them had they not used a death ray to stop the bombs |
| talesoftheunexpected4x11 | major | Wealthy commercial art gallery owner Madame La Grue paid struggling artists sous on the franc for their works of art. |
| bbf4x08 | minor | journalist claimed the poor on BB5 were exploited |
| futurama6x12 | minor | The mutants were exploited as cheap labor. |
| movie: Mighty Joe Young (1949) | minor | Max O'Hara fast talked Jill Young inti signing a bad contract to come to Hollywood and refused to let her out of it when she wanted to quit. |
| movie: The Lawless Land (1988) | minor | The Chairman had every intention of increasing worker productivity by 30% in 40 days even though inflation was out of control and the workers were on the brink of rebellion. |