Men Without Work: America's Invisible Crisis (New Threats to Freedom Series)

Eberstadt argues that if you ignore differences in retirement age, American men are now less likely to work than European men, and that male labor force participation has been declining for a few generations now. Will, Washington Post “Eberstadt has put his finger on what may be the most important socioeconomic question the U.S. Eberstadt puts statistical meat on Vance’s rhetorical bones. No nation can survive such a pandemic.” —Pittsburgh Tribune. In Men without Work, he alerts us to a new ‘invisible national crisis.’”   "An unsettling portrait not just of male unemployment, but also of lives deeply alienated from civil

"A Great Statistician Reveals Very Human Costs" according to Amazoner. Mr. Eberstadt’s excellent read is a full-blown, multi-faceted explanation of the odd situation in which the unemployment rate, as widely publicized, dramatically misleads, in that it does not take into account the significantly growing number of people who don’t have work and aren’t looking for work. This simple truth unfolds many intrigu. Relieved to see a male author tackle this problem It's a relief to see a male author tackle this subject. As a woman at midlife, I have seen the terrible effects of this shift. As I write, two close female friends from my high school years are supporting non- working men. One tells me that it's fine, her partner tries to keep himself busy; she discounts the effect on her own life.I had a partner myself wh. "A fascinating debate" according to Abacus. At the onset, one should know that the author is employed by the conservative think tank, American Enterprise Institute (AEI). Predictably, the AEI promotes small government, individual accountability and personal freedom, entrepreneurship, and fewer regulations, etc. and so does the author.However, this book is not a political rant. The author advances hi

By one reading, things look pretty good for Americans today: the country is richer than ever before and the unemployment rate is down by half since the Great Recession—lower today, in fact, than for most of the postwar era. But a closer look shows that something is going seriously wrong. For more information, please visit menwithoutwork.. This new normal of “men without work,” argues Eberstadt, is “America’s invisible crisis.”So who are these men? How did they get there? What are they doing with thei