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Author Eberstadt, Nick, 1955- author.

Title Men without work : America's invisible crisis / Nicholas Eberstadt.

Publication Info. West Conshohocken, PA : Templeton Press, [2016]
©2016

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Location Call No. Status
 Windsor, Main Library - Adult Department  305.906 EB    Check Shelf
Description x, 206 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 18 cm.
Series New threats to freedom series
New threats to freedom series.
Summary This book examines the decreasement in work rate for American males aged twenty-five to fifty-four.
Contents Part 1: Men Without Work. 1: The Collapse of Work in the Second Gilded Age ; 2: Hiding in Plain Sight: An Army of Jobless Men, Lost in an Overlooked Depression ; 3: Postwar America's Great Male Flight from Work ; 4: America's Great Male Flight from Work in Historical and International Perspective ; 5: Who Is He? A Statistical Portrait of the Un-Working American Man ; 6: Idle Hands: Time Use, Social Participation, and the Male Flight from Work ; 7: Long-Term Structural Forces and the Decline of Work for American Men ; 8: Dependence, Disability, and Living Standards for Un-Working Men ; 9: Criminality and the Decline of Work for American Men ; 10: What Is to Be Done? -- Part 2: Dissenting Points of View. 11: Creating the Beginning to of an End ; 12: A Well-Known Problem ; 13: A Response to Olsen and Bernstein.
Summary The stock market continues to set new records. Unemployment continues to go down. The United States is now at or near "full employment," at least according to received wisdom. But a closer look at economic data by Nicholas Eberstadt reveals something else entirely. While "unemployment" has gone down, the work participation rate, and especially the male work rate, has been relentlessly declining for most of the postwar era and is now reaching a crisis with Depression-era levels.- From the publisher.
Subject Men -- Employment -- United States.
Men -- United States -- Economic conditions.
Men -- United States -- Social conditions.
Unemployed -- United States -- Psychology.
Labor market -- United States.
Labor market. (OCoLC)fst00990036
Men -- Economic conditions. (OCoLC)fst01015993
Men -- Employment. (OCoLC)fst01015995
Men -- Social conditions. (OCoLC)fst01016033
Unemployed -- Psychology. (OCoLC)fst01161186
United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
Unemployed -- Psychology.
Men -- Employment.
Men -- Economic conditions.
Employment (Economic theory)
POLITICAL SCIENCE / American Government.
POLITICAL SCIENCE / Commentary & Opinion.
POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies.
ISBN 9781599474694 (paperback)
1599474697 (paperback)
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