4/4: More than 100 million Americans not working or looking for work: 4/4: Men Without Work: Post-Pandemic Edition (2022) (New Threats to Freedom Series) by Nicholas Eberstadt (Author)
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🗓️ 16 July 2023
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4/4: More than 100 million Americans not working or looking for work: 4/4: 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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| 0:24.7 | I'm John Bachel with Nicholas Aberstott is reissue of his men without work, which was |
| 0:30.4 | published in the middle of the second decade of the 21st century. |
| 0:33.8 | We're now in the third decade and we've survived the pandemic that put everyone out of work |
| 0:41.2 | momentarily. |
| 0:42.8 | Nick provides a chapter of some things that we can see that maybe change the argument |
| 0:47.5 | maybe do not. |
| 0:49.3 | Nick one of the things that I'm struck by right now again and again is these numbers |
| 0:54.6 | are changing not only for men, but also for women. |
| 0:58.4 | Do I read you correctly that women without worries is a rising category? |
| 1:03.5 | Yes, well, unfortunately, the men without work problem that I described in the first |
| 1:10.7 | edition is worse now than it was then. |
| 1:15.1 | You could almost draw a straight line from 1965 to the first edition of the book to where |
| 1:22.6 | we are now six years later. |
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