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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Eberstadt, Nick, 1955- author.

Contributor:

ebrary, Inc.

Series:

New threats to freedom series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Men--Employment--United States.

Men.

Men--United States--Economic conditions.

Men--United States--Social conditions.

Unemployed--United States--Psychology.

Unemployed.

Labor market--United States.

Labor market.

Psychology.

Social conditions.

Economic conditions.

Men--Employment.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 206 pages) : illustrations.

Place of Publication:

West Conshohocken, PA : Templeton Press, [2016]

System Details:

text file

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.

Notes:

Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781599474700

1599474700

Publisher Number:

99970106731

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.