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The Free-market Family by Maxine Eichner
Grim reality of unbridled free-market policies for US poor

IN THE current Black Lives Matter crisis, this book offers key insights into the conditions of black and working-class families in the US.

Focusing on the US’s grinding culture of overwork, job insecurity and absence of basic levels of support, it shows the astonishing disparities created by free-market policies.

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