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

Author
Eberstadt, Nick, 1955- [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
  • West Conshohocken, PA : Templeton Press, [2016]
  • ©2016
Description
x, 206 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 18 cm.

Availability

Copies in the Library

Location Call Number Status Location Service Notes
Firestone Library - Stacks HD5724 .E154 2016 Browse related items Request

    Details

    Subject(s)
    Series
    New threats to freedom series [More in this series]
    Summary note
    • 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.
    Bibliographic references
    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 ((pbk.))
    • 1599474697 ((pbk.))
    LCCN
    2016387528
    OCLC
    945948392
    Statement on language in description
    Princeton University Library aims to describe library materials in a manner that is respectful to the individuals and communities who create, use, and are represented in the collections we manage. Read more...
    Other views
    Staff view