2/4: Men Without Work: Post-Pandemic Edition (2022) (New Threats to Freedom Series) by Nicholas Eberstadt (Author3
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🗓️ 19 March 2023
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2/4: Men Without Work: Post-Pandemic Edition (2022) (New Threats to Freedom Series) by Nicholas Eberstadt (Author)
https://www.amazon.com/Men-Without-Work-Post-Pandemic-Threats/dp/1599475979
Nicholas Eberstadt’s landmark 2016 study, Men Without Work,cast a spotlight on the collapse of work for men in modern America. Rosy reports of low unemployment rates and “full or near full employment” conditions, he contends, were overlooking a quiet, continuing crisis: Depression-era work rates for American men of “prime working age” (25–54).
The grim truth: over six million prime-age men were neither working nor looking for work. Conventional unemployment measures ignored these labor force dropouts, but their ranks had been rising relentlessly for half a century. Eberstadt’s unflinching analysis was, in the words of The New York Times, “an unsettling portrait not just of male unemployment, but also of lives deeply alienated from civil society.”
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| 0:35.2 | This is CBSI on the World. |
| 0:36.9 | I'm John Bachelworth, Nicholas Aberstadt. |
| 0:39.1 | Nick Aberstadt is the author of Men Without Work. |
| 0:42.4 | This is a post-pandemic edition. |
| 0:44.3 | We'll get there, but we have to work through the mystery of 10 million men without work, |
| 0:50.4 | not looking for work and surviving in some fashion in this rich and dynamic culture. |
| 0:57.2 | Who are they? |
| 0:58.6 | Nick, this is a mystery that can be solved by categories. |
| 1:03.1 | I learned from you that a married man with children and foreign born is guaranteed to be |
| 1:10.3 | at work. |
| 1:11.3 | Garen-Teed. |
| 1:12.3 | It's automatic. |
| 1:14.8 | And those categories, if not followed, oh, education. |
| 1:20.0 | With a high school or better education, guaranteed to be at work. |
| 1:23.1 | And if those categories are not followed, that's who they are, correct? |
| 1:29.2 | The odds are really striking here, aren't they? |
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