Research Catalog

Title

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

Author

Eberstadt, Nick, 1955-

Publication

• West Conshohocken, PA : Templeton Press, [2016]
• ©2016

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Details

Description

x, 206 pages : illustrations (some color); 18 cm.

Summary

• This book examines the decreasement in work rate for American males aged twenty-five to fifty-four.
• 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.

Series Statement

New threats to freedom series

Uniform Title

New threats to freedom series.

Subject

• Kriminalität
• Ausstieg
• Partizipation
• Arbeitslosigkeit
• Geschlechtsunterschied
• Men > Employment > United States
• Men > United States > Economic conditions
• Men > United States > Social conditions
• Unemployed > United States > Psychology
• Labor market > United States
• Labor market
• Men > Economic conditions
• Men > Employment
• Men > Social conditions
• Unemployed > Psychology
• Unemployed > Psychology
• Men > Employment
• Men > Economic conditions
• Employment
• POLITICAL SCIENCE / American Government
• POLITICAL SCIENCE / Commentary & Opinion
• POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies
• United States

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

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 / by Henry Olsen ; 12: A Well-Known Problem / by Jared Bernstein ; 13: A Response to Olsen and Bernstein.

ISBN

• 9781599474694
• 1599474697

OCLC

• 945948392
• SCSB-12901913

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library