Nicholas Eberstadt

Men Without Work: Post-Pandemic Edition (2022) - New Threats to Freedom Series Nicholas Eberstadt Second Edition, Second edition

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” (twenty-five to fifty-four).