Free-Market Family: How the Market Crushed the American Dream (and How It Can Be Restored)

by Maxine Eichner

Book Overview

US families have been pushed to the wall. At the bottom of the economic ladder, poor and working-class adults aren't forming stable relationships and can't give their kids the start they need because of low wages and uncertain job prospects. Toward the top, professional parents' lives have
become a grinding slog of long hours of paid work. Meanwhile their kids are overstressed by pressure to succeed and get into good colleges. In this provocative...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0190055472
• ISBN13: 9780190055479
• Release Date: January 2020
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 364 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.5" x 9.3"