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Men without Work Post-Pandemic Edition (2022)

Nick Eberstadt

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 fo...

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The Ben Shapiro Show

This book was presented as a landmark work offering a comprehensive look at the male crisis, searching for its roots and proposing solutions. It highlighted how work rates for American males had spiraled downward between 1965 and 2015, creating an army of jobless men.

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He says the catastrophe is the collapse of work for men in the half century between 1965 and 2015. Work rates for the American male spiraled relentlessly downward and ominous migration commenced a fli...

— Episode: Ep. 1584 - Why Men And Women Are Unhappy

Episode: Ep. 1584 - Why Men And Women Are Unhappy

This book was presented as a landmark work offering a comprehensive look at the male crisis, searching for its roots and proposing solutions. It highlighted how work rates for American males had spiraled downward between 1965 and 2015, creating an army of jobless men.

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He says the catastrophe is the collapse of work for men in the half century between 1965 and 2015. Work rates for the American male spiraled relentlessly downward and ominous migration commenced a flight from work. In whichever greater numbers of working age men exited the labor force altogether.

America is now home to an ever-growing army of jobless men, no longer even looking for work over 7 million between ages 25 and 55 the traditional prime of working life.

The troubles posed by the male flight from work says Nicky Burstatt are by no means solely economic. It's also a social crisis and a moral crisis. The growing incapability of grown men to function as breadwinners cannot help but undermine the American family.

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