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

by Eberstadt, Nick, 1955- author.

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West Conshohocken, PA : Templeton Press, c2016.

Men -- Employment -- United States.

Men -- United States -- Economic conditions.

Men -- United States -- Social conditions.

Unemployed -- United States -- Psychology.

Labor market -- United States.

Electronic Resource

https://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1703/2016387528-b.html

Electronic Resource

https://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1703/2016387528-d.html

9781599474694 (pbk)

1599474697 (pbk)

New threats to freedom series.

x, 206 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 18 cm.

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.

This book examines the decreasement in work rate for American males aged twenty-five to fifty-four.

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