The Coffee Industry Is Unequal. A Marxist Economic Theory Explains How. Highlight

Instead of outright subjugation and slavery—although that does still exist—the modern industry embraced “neoliberal ideologies of entrepreneurial meritocracy” and held up the free market as all-powerful. Therefore, they write, “many of the most severely exploited farmers control the means of production and even own the land they work, yet somehow remain unable to escape domination”.