Men without work : post-pandemic edition / Nicholas Eberstadt.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Eberstadt, Nicholas, 1955- author.

Series:

New threats to freedom series.

New threats to freedom series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Men--Employment--United States.

Men.

Unemployed--United States.

Unemployed.

Labor market--United States.

Labor market.

Social service--United States.

Social service.

COVID-19 (Disease)--Economic aspects--United States.

COVID-19 (Disease).

United States--Social conditions--21st century.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (140 pages)

Edition:

Second edition.

Place of Publication:

West Conshohocken, Pennsylvania : Templeton Press, [2022]

Summary:

In a brand new introduction, Eberstadt explains how the government's response to Covid-19 inadvertently exacerbated the flight from work in America. From indiscriminate pandemic shutdowns to almost unconditional "unemployment" benefits, Americans were essentially paid not to work. Thus today, despite the vaccine rollouts, inexplicable numbers of working age men and women are sitting on the sidelines while over 11 million jobs go unfilled. Current low rates of unemployment, touted by pundits and politicians, are grievously misleading. The truth is that fewer prime-age American men are looking for readily available work than at any previous juncture in our history. And others may be catching the "Men Without Work" virus too. Given the devastating economic impact of the Covid calamity and the unforeseen aftershocks yet to come, this reissue of Eberstadt's groundbreaking work is timelier than ever

Men United States Economic conditions.

Men United States Social conditions.

Contents:

Introduction: Post-pandemic edition (2022)

Introduction: 2016 edition

The collapse of work in the second gilded age

Hiding in plain sight : an army of jobless men, lost in an overlooked depression

Postwar America's great male flight from work

America's great male flight from work in historical and international perspective

Who Is he? : a statistical portrait of the un-working American man

Idle hands : time use, social participation, and the male flight from work

Long-term structural forces and the decline of work for American men

Dependence, disability, and living standards for un-working men

Criminality and the decline of work for American men

What is to be done?

Creating the beginning to of an end / by Henry Olsen

A well-known problem / by Jared Bernstein

A response to Olsen and Bernstein.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Eberstadt, Nicholas Men Without Work

ISBN:

9781599475981