The Saint-Simonians were the first to present a theory of ‘exploitation’ using that word itself. Their theory incorporated an unresolved tension between a narrow and a broad view of the concept. The narrow view restricted exploitation to the economic sphere; the broad view included the exploitation of women by men. Both aspects were traced to a transmitted history of force, and condemned as ‘slavery’. The Saint-Simonian prescription envisaged the disappearance of ‘economic’ and gender exploitation. The original Saint-Simonian account of exploitation can be seen as setting a research agenda which still continues, or as creating a tangle of confusion which still remains.
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