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💸 Poverty And Exploitation

Unflinching accounts of how systems and individuals profit from the vulnerability of the poor, laying bare the mechanisms that perpetuate inequality by design.
Poverty, by America
by Matthew Desmond • 2023
Poverty in America persists by design, fueled by exploitation and welfare that flows to the top.
4.27
64k+
🏚️ Housing Exploitation🛠️ Labor Exploitation💰 Affluent Welfare
Poverty, by America Summary
Poverty, by America 90%
Poverty in America persists by design, fueled by exploitation and welfare that flows to the top.
by Matthew Desmond 2023
4.27
64k+ ratings
🏚️ Housing Exploitation🛠️ Labor Exploitation💰 Affluent Welfare
Maid
by Stephanie Land • 2019
A single mother cleans houses while barely holding onto her own: life inside the working poor.
3.86
114k+
💰 Working Poor🧹 Domestic Labor🌫️ Invisible Labor
Maid Summary
Maid 89%
A single mother cleans houses while barely holding onto her own: life inside the working poor.
by Stephanie Land 2019
3.86
114k+ ratings
💰 Working Poor🧹 Domestic Labor🌫️ Invisible Labor
White Poverty
by William J. Barber II • 2024
America's poor are mostly white. The lie that says otherwise keeps the working class fractured.
4.28
719
🏚️ Systemic Poverty🔗 Racial Division💭 Poverty Myths
White Poverty Summary
White Poverty 89%
America's poor are mostly white. The lie that says otherwise keeps the working class fractured.
by William J. Barber II 2024
4.28
719 ratings
🏚️ Systemic Poverty🔗 Racial Division💭 Poverty Myths
All You Can Eat
by Joel Berg • 2008
America has the food to feed everyone. Why 35 million still go hungry.
3.88
137
🍽️ Food Insecurity📋 Welfare Policy🔗 Systemic Poverty
All You Can Eat Summary
All You Can Eat 89%
America has the food to feed everyone. Why 35 million still go hungry.
by Joel Berg 2008
3.88
137 ratings
🍽️ Food Insecurity📋 Welfare Policy🔗 Systemic Poverty
Invisible Child
by Andrea Elliott • 2021
Born homeless in Brooklyn, Dasani gets one shot: a boarding school that accepts one in ten.
4.70
20k+
🏙️ Urban Poverty🛡️ Child Welfare🔁 Intergenerational Poverty
Invisible Child Summary
Invisible Child 89%
Born homeless in Brooklyn, Dasani gets one shot: a boarding school that accepts one in ten.
by Andrea Elliott 2021
4.70
20k+ ratings
🏙️ Urban Poverty🛡️ Child Welfare🔁 Intergenerational Poverty
Gang Leader for a Day
by Sudhir Venkatesh • 2008
A sociologist ran a Chicago gang for a day. The books were cleaner than he expected.
4.07
26k+
🏙️ Urban Poverty📝 Ethnographic Fieldwork💰 Underground Economy
Gang Leader for a Day Summary
Gang Leader for a Day 89%
A sociologist ran a Chicago gang for a day. The books were cleaner than he expected.
by Sudhir Venkatesh 2008
4.07
26k+ ratings
🏙️ Urban Poverty📝 Ethnographic Fieldwork💰 Underground Economy
The Locust Effect
by Gary A. Haugen • 2013
Poverty's root cause is violence, not economics. The aid industry has been fixing the wrong problem.
4.32
2k+
🏚️ Global Poverty📈 Development Economics⚖️ Rule Of Law
The Locust Effect Summary
The Locust Effect 89%
Poverty's root cause is violence, not economics. The aid industry has been fixing the wrong problem.
by Gary A. Haugen 2013
4.32
2k+ ratings
🏚️ Global Poverty📈 Development Economics⚖️ Rule Of Law
No Shame in My Game
by Katherine S. Newman • 1999
The job everyone ridicules might be the best shot at dignity for America's working poor.
3.75
466
🧐 Urban Ethnography🧑‍🏭 Working Poor🍔 Low-Wage Labor
No Shame in My Game Summary
No Shame in My Game 89%
The job everyone ridicules might be the best shot at dignity for America's working poor.
by Katherine S. Newman 1999
3.75
466 ratings
🧐 Urban Ethnography🧑‍🏭 Working Poor🍔 Low-Wage Labor
Improving Poor People
by Michael B. Katz • 1995
Why America keeps trying to fix the poor instead of poverty, and what history reveals.
3.83
12
📉 Poverty Policy🏛️ Welfare State🎯 Blaming The Victim
Improving Poor People Summary
Improving Poor People 88%
Why America keeps trying to fix the poor instead of poverty, and what history reveals.
by Michael B. Katz 1995
3.83
12 ratings
📉 Poverty Policy🏛️ Welfare State🎯 Blaming The Victim
Hillbilly Elegy
by J.D. Vance • 2016
Poverty teaches a lesson that keeps you poor: your effort doesn't matter.
3.83
508k+
⛰️ Appalachian Memoir🏭 White Working Class🧸 Childhood Adversity
Hillbilly Elegy Summary
Hillbilly Elegy 88%
Poverty teaches a lesson that keeps you poor: your effort doesn't matter.
by J.D. Vance 2016
3.83
508k+ ratings
⛰️ Appalachian Memoir🏭 White Working Class🧸 Childhood Adversity
Behind the Beautiful Forevers
by Katherine Boo • 2012
A murder charge, born of envy, traps a garbage-sorting family in Mumbai's market for justice.
3.98
117k+
🏙️ Urban Poverty🇮🇳 Indian Society🪝 Systemic Corruption
Behind the Beautiful Forevers Summary
Behind the Beautiful Forevers 88%
A murder charge, born of envy, traps a garbage-sorting family in Mumbai's market for justice.
by Katherine Boo 2012
3.98
117k+ ratings
🏙️ Urban Poverty🇮🇳 Indian Society🪝 Systemic Corruption
Broke, USA
by Gary Rivlin • 2010
How pawnshops and payday lenders turned the working poor into a multi-billion dollar market.
3.71
1k+
🦈 Predatory Lending🏚️ Poverty Economics🚪 Financial Exclusion
Broke, USA Summary
Broke, USA 88%
How pawnshops and payday lenders turned the working poor into a multi-billion dollar market.
by Gary Rivlin 2010
3.71
1k+ ratings
🦈 Predatory Lending🏚️ Poverty Economics🚪 Financial Exclusion
Poverty Safari
by Darren McGarvey • 2017
Poverty isn't just broke. It's trauma, addiction, and a mind that fights its own rescue.
4.01
7k+
🏚️ Urban Poverty📊 Class Analysis💊 Addiction And Recovery
Poverty Safari Summary
Poverty Safari 88%
Poverty isn't just broke. It's trauma, addiction, and a mind that fights its own rescue.
by Darren McGarvey 2017
4.01
7k+ ratings
🏚️ Urban Poverty📊 Class Analysis💊 Addiction And Recovery
Down and Out in Paris and London
by George Orwell • 1933
Broke in Paris, Orwell descends into the invisible world of dishwashers and tramps.
4.09
103k+
🪶 Poverty Memoir🎥 Social Documentary🧹 Working Poor
Down and Out in Paris and London Summary
Down and Out in Paris and London 88%
Broke in Paris, Orwell descends into the invisible world of dishwashers and tramps.
by George Orwell 1933
4.09
103k+ ratings
🪶 Poverty Memoir🎥 Social Documentary🧹 Working Poor
Portfolios of the Poor
by Daryl Collins • 2009
Hand-to-mouth is a myth. On $2 a day, the poor juggle a dozen financial instruments just to survive.
3.95
1k+
🌍 Development Economics💰 Microfinance🏦 Financial Inclusion
Portfolios of the Poor Summary
Portfolios of the Poor 88%
Hand-to-mouth is a myth. On $2 a day, the poor juggle a dozen financial instruments just to survive.
by Daryl Collins 2009
3.95
1k+ ratings
🌍 Development Economics💰 Microfinance🏦 Financial Inclusion
Not for Sale
by David Batstone • 2007
Slavery never ended. Thirty million people are still in chains, in the country next door.
4.24
2k+
💔 Human Trafficking🧒 Child Soldiers🔍 Investigative Journalism
Not for Sale Summary
Not for Sale 88%
Slavery never ended. Thirty million people are still in chains, in the country next door.
by David Batstone 2007
4.24
2k+ ratings
💔 Human Trafficking🧒 Child Soldiers🔍 Investigative Journalism
Shattered Nation
by Danny Dorling • 2023
Beneath every British crisis lies a map of inequality decades in the making.
3.97
119
🗺️ Regional Inequality📉 Austerity Politics🏚️ Welfare State Erosion
Shattered Nation Summary
Shattered Nation 88%
Beneath every British crisis lies a map of inequality decades in the making.
by Danny Dorling 2023
3.97
119 ratings
🗺️ Regional Inequality📉 Austerity Politics🏚️ Welfare State Erosion
All That Is Solid
by Danny Dorling • 2014
Britain has a third more bedrooms than people. The housing disaster is engineered, not inevitable.
3.55
144
🏘️ Housing Policy💰 Wealth Inequality📈 Financialization
All That Is Solid Summary
All That Is Solid 88%
Britain has a third more bedrooms than people. The housing disaster is engineered, not inevitable.
by Danny Dorling 2014
3.55
144 ratings
🏘️ Housing Policy💰 Wealth Inequality📈 Financialization
In the Shadow of the Poorhouse
by Michael B. Katz • 1986
American welfare was designed to deter, not to help. The poorhouse closed; the logic stayed.
3.74
138
📜 Welfare History🏚️ Poverty Studies🔗 Structural Inequality
In the Shadow of the Poorhouse Summary
In the Shadow of the Poorhouse 88%
American welfare was designed to deter, not to help. The poorhouse closed; the logic stayed.
by Michael B. Katz 1986
3.74
138 ratings
📜 Welfare History🏚️ Poverty Studies🔗 Structural Inequality
Evicted
by Matthew Desmond • 2016
Poverty isn't the cause of eviction. Eviction is the cause of poverty, and the market profits.
4.47
115k+
🏙️ Urban Poverty🏚️ Housing Insecurity✊ Racial Inequality
Evicted Summary
Evicted 88%
Poverty isn't the cause of eviction. Eviction is the cause of poverty, and the market profits.
by Matthew Desmond 2016
4.47
115k+ ratings
🏙️ Urban Poverty🏚️ Housing Insecurity✊ Racial Inequality
English Journey
by J.B. Priestley • 1934
Factories silent, towns hollow, but the people Priestley met in 1933 refused to vanish.
4.09
483
🏭 Industrial Decline📉 Depression Era👷 Working Class Life
English Journey Summary
English Journey 88%
Factories silent, towns hollow, but the people Priestley met in 1933 refused to vanish.
by J.B. Priestley 1934
4.09
483 ratings
🏭 Industrial Decline📉 Depression Era👷 Working Class Life
The Human Cost of Welfare
by Phil Harvey • 2016
Welfare was built to end poverty. Its rules punish work, marriage, and saving instead.
4.45
20
🏛️ Welfare Reform📉 Anti-Poverty Policy💼 Work Incentives
The Human Cost of Welfare Summary
The Human Cost of Welfare 88%
Welfare was built to end poverty. Its rules punish work, marriage, and saving instead.
by Phil Harvey 2016
4.45
20 ratings
🏛️ Welfare Reform📉 Anti-Poverty Policy💼 Work Incentives
Poor Economics
by Abhijit V. Banerjee • 2011
Poverty is not one problem but many small ones. Randomized trials reveal which fixes actually work.
4.27
25k+
🏗️ Development Economics🌍 Global Poverty🧪 Randomized Controlled Trials
Poor Economics Summary
Poor Economics 88%
Poverty is not one problem but many small ones. Randomized trials reveal which fixes actually work.
by Abhijit V. Banerjee 2011
4.27
25k+ ratings
🏗️ Development Economics🌍 Global Poverty🧪 Randomized Controlled Trials
America
by Chris Hedges • 2018
Addiction, casinos, and the death of work: the symptoms of late capitalism's terminal stage.
4.23
3k+
🛒 Late Capitalism🇺🇸 American Decline💊 Opioid Crisis
America Summary
America 88%
Addiction, casinos, and the death of work: the symptoms of late capitalism's terminal stage.
by Chris Hedges 2018
4.23
3k+ ratings
🛒 Late Capitalism🇺🇸 American Decline💊 Opioid Crisis
The Bottom Billion
by Paul Collier • 2007
Four traps keep a billion people poor, and the usual remedies only tighten them.
3.85
8k+
📈 Development Economics🪤 Poverty Traps🛢️ Resource Curse
The Bottom Billion Summary
The Bottom Billion 88%
Four traps keep a billion people poor, and the usual remedies only tighten them.
by Paul Collier 2007
3.85
8k+ ratings
📈 Development Economics🪤 Poverty Traps🛢️ Resource Curse
Where We Stand
by bell hooks • 2000
Feminism and antiracism won't succeed until they confront the thing they most ignore: class.
4.24
3k+
🤝 Intersectional Feminism🏛️ Class Analysis✊🏾 Black Feminism
Where We Stand Summary
Where We Stand 88%
Feminism and antiracism won't succeed until they confront the thing they most ignore: class.
by bell hooks 2000
4.24
3k+ ratings
🤝 Intersectional Feminism🏛️ Class Analysis✊🏾 Black Feminism
Bankrupting the Third World
by James Morcan • 2015
The global poverty industry: why aid, loans, and conflict minerals ensure poor nations stay poor.
4.40
96
🛢️ Resource Extraction💰 Aid Critique⛏️ Conflict Minerals
Bankrupting the Third World Summary
Bankrupting the Third World 88%
The global poverty industry: why aid, loans, and conflict minerals ensure poor nations stay poor.
by James Morcan 2015
4.40
96 ratings
🛢️ Resource Extraction💰 Aid Critique⛏️ Conflict Minerals
In Our Hands
by Charles Murray • 2006
Eliminate every welfare program. Send every adult one check. It costs less and ends poverty.
3.74
290
🏦 Universal Basic Income📋 Welfare Reform🏘️ Civil Society
In Our Hands Summary
In Our Hands 88%
Eliminate every welfare program. Send every adult one check. It costs less and ends poverty.
by Charles Murray 2006
3.74
290 ratings
🏦 Universal Basic Income📋 Welfare Reform🏘️ Civil Society
How the Other Half Banks
by Mehrsa Baradaran • 2015
Banks get public support but exclude the poor. The public option that restores the social contract.
4.09
626
🏦 Banking History📜 Financial Regulation🇺🇸 Us Economic Policy
How the Other Half Banks Summary
How the Other Half Banks 88%
Banks get public support but exclude the poor. The public option that restores the social contract.
by Mehrsa Baradaran 2015
4.09
626 ratings
🏦 Banking History📜 Financial Regulation🇺🇸 Us Economic Policy
The White Man's Burden
by William Easterly • 2006
$2.3 trillion in aid left the poorest no better off. A World Bank insider explains why.
3.83
6k+
📈 Development Economics🔍 Aid Skepticism🌱 Bottom-Up Development
The White Man's Burden Summary
The White Man's Burden 88%
$2.3 trillion in aid left the poorest no better off. A World Bank insider explains why.
by William Easterly 2006
3.83
6k+ ratings
📈 Development Economics🔍 Aid Skepticism🌱 Bottom-Up Development
The Mystery Of Capital
by Hernando de Soto • 2000
$9.3 trillion: what the world's poor already own and cannot borrow a dime against.
3.99
4k+
🏠 Property Rights🌍 Development Economics🏘️ Informal Economies
The Mystery Of Capital Summary
The Mystery Of Capital 88%
$9.3 trillion: what the world's poor already own and cannot borrow a dime against.
by Hernando de Soto 2000
3.99
4k+ ratings
🏠 Property Rights🌍 Development Economics🏘️ Informal Economies
Ain't No Makin' It
by Jay MacLeod • 2008
One group believed hard work would save them; the other didn't. Class position decided their fates.
4.07
1k+
🏙️ Urban Poverty📝 Ethnographic Sociology⚖️ Class Inequality
Ain't No Makin' It Summary
Ain't No Makin' It 88%
One group believed hard work would save them; the other didn't. Class position decided their fates.
by Jay MacLeod 2008
4.07
1k+ ratings
🏙️ Urban Poverty📝 Ethnographic Sociology⚖️ Class Inequality
The Life You Can Save
by Peter Singer • 2009
Child drowning: you'd wade in. Child dying of malaria: $10 saves her. The moral math is identical.
4.15
7k+
🧮 Effective Altruism🌍 Global Poverty⚖️ Utilitarian Ethics
The Life You Can Save Summary
The Life You Can Save 88%
Child drowning: you'd wade in. Child dying of malaria: $10 saves her. The moral math is identical.
by Peter Singer 2009
4.15
7k+ ratings
🧮 Effective Altruism🌍 Global Poverty⚖️ Utilitarian Ethics
Categorically Unequal
by Douglas S. Massey • 2007
America engineered its inequality: sort people into categories, then rig the rules.
4.24
134
📊 Social Stratification🔀 Race And Class🏛️ Political Economy
Categorically Unequal Summary
Categorically Unequal 87%
America engineered its inequality: sort people into categories, then rig the rules.
by Douglas S. Massey 2007
4.24
134 ratings
📊 Social Stratification🔀 Race And Class🏛️ Political Economy
How the Poor Can Save Capitalism
by John Hope Bryant • 2014
The poor aren't a drain; they're an untapped engine. A blueprint for making capitalism include them.
3.99
210
🧠 Financial Literacy📈 Credit Repair🏦 Community Banking
How the Poor Can Save Capitalism Summary
How the Poor Can Save Capitalism 87%
The poor aren't a drain; they're an untapped engine. A blueprint for making capitalism include them.
by John Hope Bryant 2014
3.99
210 ratings
🧠 Financial Literacy📈 Credit Repair🏦 Community Banking
Best Things First
by Bjørn Lomborg • 2023
Saving 4.2 million lives yearly costs $35 billion, if you fund only the most effective policies.
3.90
388
🌍 Development Economics📊 Benefit-Cost Analysis🤲 Effective Altruism
Best Things First Summary
Best Things First 87%
Saving 4.2 million lives yearly costs $35 billion, if you fund only the most effective policies.
by Bjørn Lomborg 2023
3.90
388 ratings
🌍 Development Economics📊 Benefit-Cost Analysis🤲 Effective Altruism
A Pelican Introduction
by Mike Savage • 2015
Three hidden currencies now define British class, and only one appears on a payslip.
4.06
546
🏛️ Class Analysis🇬🇧 British Society🎭 Cultural Capital
A Pelican Introduction Summary
A Pelican Introduction 87%
Three hidden currencies now define British class, and only one appears on a payslip.
by Mike Savage 2015
4.06
546 ratings
🏛️ Class Analysis🇬🇧 British Society🎭 Cultural Capital
Profit and Punishment
by Tony Messenger • 2021
When courts depend on fines to stay open, the poor become the revenue.
4.26
658
🏛️ Criminal Justice Reform🔗 Mass Incarceration⚖️ Systemic Inequality
Profit and Punishment Summary
Profit and Punishment 87%
When courts depend on fines to stay open, the poor become the revenue.
by Tony Messenger 2021
4.26
658 ratings
🏛️ Criminal Justice Reform🔗 Mass Incarceration⚖️ Systemic Inequality
The New Human Rights Movement
by Peter Joseph • 2017
The economy is a well-oiled system of oppression. The case for rebuilding it, not fixing it.
4.33
625
🏛️ Political Economy⚖️ Structural Inequality🔗 Systems Thinking
The New Human Rights Movement Summary
The New Human Rights Movement 87%
The economy is a well-oiled system of oppression. The case for rebuilding it, not fixing it.
by Peter Joseph 2017
4.33
625 ratings
🏛️ Political Economy⚖️ Structural Inequality🔗 Systems Thinking
Life at the Bottom
by Theodore Dalrymple • 2001
Poverty didn't wreck the underclass. A set of ideas did—and intellectuals handed them down.
4.23
4k+
🏙️ Urban Poverty🏛️ Welfare State Critique🎭 Victimhood Culture
Life at the Bottom Summary
Life at the Bottom 87%
Poverty didn't wreck the underclass. A set of ideas did—and intellectuals handed them down.
by Theodore Dalrymple 2001
4.23
4k+ ratings
🏙️ Urban Poverty🏛️ Welfare State Critique🎭 Victimhood Culture
Great Escape
by Angus Deaton • 2013
Life expectancy doubled, incomes soared, and inequality became the price of progress.
3.81
2k+
🏛️ Economic History⚖️ Income Inequality🌍 Global Health
Great Escape Summary
Great Escape 87%
Life expectancy doubled, incomes soared, and inequality became the price of progress.
by Angus Deaton 2013
3.81
2k+ ratings
🏛️ Economic History⚖️ Income Inequality🌍 Global Health
Class
by Stephanie Land • 2023
To afford college, she scrubbed toilets. The welfare office told her to drop out instead.
3.61
15k+
👩‍👧 Single Motherhood💔 Domestic Abuse Survival👩‍🎓 Poverty And Education
Class Summary
Class 87%
To afford college, she scrubbed toilets. The welfare office told her to drop out instead.
by Stephanie Land 2023
3.61
15k+ ratings
👩‍👧 Single Motherhood💔 Domestic Abuse Survival👩‍🎓 Poverty And Education
The Lost and the Found
by Kevin Fagan • 2025
A reporter followed two unhoused people in San Francisco. One got out. The other didn't. Here's why.
4.27
912
🏠 Chronic Homelessness🏙️ Urban Poverty💉 Addiction And Recovery
The Lost and the Found Summary
The Lost and the Found 87%
A reporter followed two unhoused people in San Francisco. One got out. The other didn't. Here's why.
by Kevin Fagan 2025
4.27
912 ratings
🏠 Chronic Homelessness🏙️ Urban Poverty💉 Addiction And Recovery
The Trouble with Diversity
by Walter Benn Michaels • 2006
The left traded class war for culture war, and the rich couldn't believe their luck.
3.59
516
🏛️ Class Politics💸 Economic Inequality🏷️ Identity Politics
The Trouble with Diversity Summary
The Trouble with Diversity 87%
The left traded class war for culture war, and the rich couldn't believe their luck.
by Walter Benn Michaels 2006
3.59
516 ratings
🏛️ Class Politics💸 Economic Inequality🏷️ Identity Politics
The Great U-turn
by Barry Bluestone • 1988
After 1973, the American Dream reversed. The cause: deliberate choices by firms and the state.
3.40
15
🏭 Deindustrialization⚖️ Income Inequality💰 Financialization
The Great U-turn Summary
The Great U-turn 87%
After 1973, the American Dream reversed. The cause: deliberate choices by firms and the state.
by Barry Bluestone 1988
3.40
15 ratings
🏭 Deindustrialization⚖️ Income Inequality💰 Financialization
When the Fireflies Dance
by Aisha Hassan • 2025
Exiled from bonded labor at a Lahore kiln, a boy must steal to free his family.
4.19
4k+
🏚️ Generational Poverty🏭 Gritty Social Realism🤝 Found Family
When the Fireflies Dance Summary
When the Fireflies Dance 87%
Exiled from bonded labor at a Lahore kiln, a boy must steal to free his family.
by Aisha Hassan 2025
4.19
4k+ ratings
🏚️ Generational Poverty🏭 Gritty Social Realism🤝 Found Family
How to Kill a City
by Peter Moskowitz • 2017
Four cities, one playbook: policy and profit, not hipsters, push out the poor and replace them.
4.07
4k+
🏗️ Gentrification🏠 Housing Policy🧱 Racial Capitalism
How to Kill a City Summary
How to Kill a City 87%
Four cities, one playbook: policy and profit, not hipsters, push out the poor and replace them.
by Peter Moskowitz 2017
4.07
4k+ ratings
🏗️ Gentrification🏠 Housing Policy🧱 Racial Capitalism
Bereketli Topraklar Üzerinde
by Orhan Kemal • 1954
Three men walk to the cotton mills carrying blankets on their backs and wages in their heads.
4.21
2k+
📖 Social Realism🚶 Rural Migration⚒️ Worker Exploitation
Bereketli Topraklar Üzerinde Summary
Bereketli Topraklar Üzerinde 87%
Three men walk to the cotton mills carrying blankets on their backs and wages in their heads.
by Orhan Kemal 1954
4.21
2k+ ratings
📖 Social Realism🚶 Rural Migration⚒️ Worker Exploitation
The New Urban Crisis
by Richard Florida • 2017
Why urban revival is driving inequality and pushing out the middle class.
3.49
1k+
🏙️ Urban Inequality🏘️ Gentrification📊 Economic Segregation
The New Urban Crisis Summary
The New Urban Crisis 87%
Why urban revival is driving inequality and pushing out the middle class.
by Richard Florida 2017
3.49
1k+ ratings
🏙️ Urban Inequality🏘️ Gentrification📊 Economic Segregation
Glass House
by Brian Alexander • 2017
Private equity bought a glass factory. By the time they were done, a town was destroyed.
3.91
2k+
🏭 Deindustrialization💰 Private Equity💊 Opioid Epidemic
Glass House Summary
Glass House 87%
Private equity bought a glass factory. By the time they were done, a town was destroyed.
by Brian Alexander 2017
3.91
2k+ ratings
🏭 Deindustrialization💰 Private Equity💊 Opioid Epidemic
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