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Elizabeth Anderson, "Hijacked: How Neoliberalism Turned the Work Ethic against Workers and How Workers Can Take It Back" (Cambridge UP, 2023)

New Books in Critical Theory

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Consequences of Negative Attitudes towards the Poor and the Irish Famine

This chapter delves into how negative attitudes towards the poor affected English welfare policies, leading to the establishment of workhouses and the preventable deaths of over a million Irish people during the famine.

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