Economic exploitation
What Economic exploitation means in History B Schools History Project GCSE, as defined for OCR.
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The socialist and radical liberal critique that British rule took Indian resources and caused widespread poverty in India.
Severe exploitation and forced labour in mines and on estates, which the Encomienda system resulted in in reality.
Working-class women endured long hours in poorly paid jobs, such as domestic service, alongside household duties.
Many freedmen became trapped in the sharecropping system, which forced them into a cycle of debt and poverty.
Topics that use Economic exploitation
- British Depth Study: Britain in Peace and War, 1900–1918 (OCR GCSE)
- Period Study: The Making of America, 1789–1900 (OCR GCSE)
- World Depth Study: Aztecs and the Spanish Conquest, 1519–1535 (OCR GCSE)
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- Changing attitudes to poverty
- Conflict and violence
- Conflict and warfare
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