Exploitation (n.) is an entire system such that as soon as the manufacturer's exploitation is at an end, the labor receives his wages in cash and is then immediately set upon by the other portions of the bourgeoisie, the landlord, the shopkeeper, the pawnbroker, etc.
Exploitation (n.) is the harmful use of another person for one's own benefit.
Exploitation (n.) once veiled by religious and political illusions now goes naked, shameless, direct and brutal.
Exploitation (n.) listed under costs looks like a bargain, paying less for labour much as one saves by buying cheaper raw material, and the extortion loses its specific character.
Exploitation (n.) can be cheap or dear to run, which matters to the worker about as much as the price of its bit and bridle matters to a horse.
Exploitation (n.) is every capitalist's business: the whole class exploits the whole working class, so even a capitalist who employed not a single worker would profit from unpaid labour like the rest.
Exploitation (n.) defeats itself: the same methods that let capital squeeze more from each worker make it impossible to exploit as many workers as before with the same capital.
Exploitation (n.) and its realization are separate in time, space and theory: the first is limited only by productive forces, the second by the society's power of consumption.
Exploitation (n.) is no sinecure: it takes effort, whether done by the capitalist himself or by others in his name — and that effort becomes his alibi.