Men Without Work
Nicholas Eberstadt
Templeton Press
<p>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&#8212;lower today, in fact, than for most of the postwar era.<p>But a closer look shows that something is going seriously wrong. This is the collapse of work&#8212;most especially among America's men. Nicholas Eberstadt, a political economist who holds the Henry Wendt Chair in Political Economy at the American Enterprise Institute, shows that while "unemployment" has gone down, America's work rate is also lower today than a generation ago&#8212;and that the work rate for US men has been spiraling downward for half a century...