Recent Chinese immigrants to the U.S. often find jobs working in sweatshops in New York City's Chinatown, where they work 16 or
more hours a day in the garment industry, earning less than minimum wage. The big businesses that hire these illegal and often uninformed immigrants illustrate__________.
The exploitation theory can be defined as the theory that states that employers of labour carryout exploitation of wage earners in term of their wages and that value is intrinsic in a product according to the amount of labor that has been spent on producing that product and this happen in a situation where a group of people take for itself what is produced by another group because workers or wages earner are been exploited by been forced to sell their labor power for less than the full value of the commodities they produce with their labor just as in the case of Recent Chinese immigrants to the U.S. illustrated in the information given.
Therefore the The big businesses that hire these illegal and often uninformed immigrants illustrate EXPLOITATION THEORY
The exploitation theory is based on the Marxist theory which rests on Karl Marx's belief that profit in capitalist economies are as a result of exploitation of wage earners by employers whereby these employees give their labour power(forced) for someone much less value. This is seen in the example above where Chinese immigrant individuals who are uninformed and cannot demand for higher pay have no choice but to work for less pay in sweatshops in New York.
