The plantation model is an exploitative economic system that relies on uncompensated or poorly compensated labor—often through slavery or sharecropping—while denying workers rights and dehumanizing their contributions, especially through the devaluation of feminized labor. It prioritizes profit over people, working the land without cultural knowledge or care, leading to environmental degradation and the displacement or death of Indigenous communities who stewarded the land sustainably. This model promotes monoculture and the introduction of foreign species, exhausting natural resources for short-term gain without regard for long-term ecological or social health.

We coined this piece of vocabulary so we could have shared understanding for lecture on Disability Justice, Carework and Cooperative Management.