When Work Disappears: The World of the New Urban Poor
by William Julius Wilson · 1 Jan 1996 · 399pp · 116,828 words
Mexican men than did variables measuring individual attitudes. Also, data from the survey reveal that jobless black men have a lower “reservation wage” than the jobless men in the other ethnic groups. They were willing to work for less than $6.00 per hour, whereas Mexican and Puerto Rican
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jobless men expected $6.20 and $7.20, respectively, as a condition for working; white men, on the other hand, expected over $9.00 per hour. This
The Price of Inequality: How Today's Divided Society Endangers Our Future
by Joseph E. Stiglitz · 10 Jun 2012 · 580pp · 168,476 words
. Many of the efforts at disenfranchisement, now and in the past, have been directed at disenfranchising the poor; in the 1930s, pauper exclusion laws disenfranchised jobless men and women who were receiving relief.30 The political science scholar Walter Dean Burnham has detailed the long history of what he calls efforts at
The Origins of the Urban Crisis
by Sugrue, Thomas J.
drove by. Local residents complained that traffic along Eight Mile backed up for blocks as employers checked out and selected day laborers. On slow days, jobless men loitered on the streets, leading one black community group to complain of “women, young and old being molested on the sidewalks, the usage of vile
The Survival of the City: Human Flourishing in an Age of Isolation
by Edward Glaeser and David Cutler · 14 Sep 2021 · 735pp · 165,375 words
situation somewhat different for women. Even officially “nonworking” women do plenty of work, taking care of children and family members and volunteering in the community. Jobless men watch an average of five hours of television every day. The issues around women and work are too deep and important for us to address
Men Without Work
by Nicholas Eberstadt · 4 Sep 2016 · 126pp · 37,081 words
Acknowledgments Introduction 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
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from work,” in which ever-growing numbers of working-age men exited the labor force altogether. America is now home to an immense army of jobless men no longer even looking for work—more than seven million alone between the ages of twenty-five and fifty-five, the traditional prime of working
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a stunning decline. I shall detail the particulars of this sad saga in the following pages. CHAPTER 2 Hiding in Plain Sight: An Army of Jobless Men, Lost in an Overlooked Depression MUCH CURRENT ANALYSIS of labor market conditions paints a cautiously optimistic—even unabashedly positive—picture of job trends. But easily
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number of social participation and social engagement indicators are not appreciably different for men who have no job but are looking for one and the jobless men who are not seeking work. Yet the overall picture of the daily life rhythms of prime-age men who have made a long-term exit
The Forgotten Man
by Amity Shlaes · 25 Jun 2007 · 514pp · 153,092 words
years. Hoover’s labor department blithely told the country that things would normalize, but as Time would note in February 1930, “Communists stirred hungry, cold, jobless men and women to demonstrations which required no statistician to interpret.” Of the problems confronting the economy, the tariff threat seemed most urgent, and easiest to
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classes that Roosevelt now described in his speeches. And they responded accordingly. Whereas in the old America of the 1920s the sight of so many jobless men had provoked shock and alarm, now people accepted it, telling themselves that at least things were better than before. The same held for stock traders
Planet of Slums
by Mike Davis · 1 Mar 2006 · 232pp
Yatsko, the bureau chief for the Far Eastern Economic Review, "the government estimated that laid-off women would be less of a security threat than jobless men." Former female industrial workers — welders, lathe operators, and shipbuilders — are now forced to hunt for low-paying service-sector jobs as maids, waitresses, nannies, or
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
by Matthew Desmond · 1 Mar 2016 · 444pp · 138,781 words
painting, savvy inner-city landlords did not phone plumbers, roofers, or painters. They relied on two desperate and on-hand labor pools: tenants themselves and jobless men. New landlords would speak of “knowing a good plumber.” Experienced landlords would say they “had a guy.” Lamar knew that Sherrena “had people” and doubted
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, 1969 [1935]), 700. 11. The weight of the shame, sociologists have long thought, explained why many relationships fell apart in poor black neighborhoods. Especially for jobless men, the indignity of facing your family empty-handed built up to the point where abandonment became the lesser disgrace. To stay in a committed relationship
Tightrope: Americans Reaching for Hope
by Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl Wudunn · 14 Jan 2020 · 307pp · 96,543 words
. In surveys, self-reported happiness drops ten times as much from a loss of a job as from a major loss of income. Long-term jobless men are three times as likely to be treated for depression as other men. Lack of employment is also associated with physical and mental-health problems
A People's History of the United States
by Howard Zinn · 2 Jan 1977 · 913pp · 299,770 words
the city lodging house for lack of funds was quelled by police reserves in Cadillac Square tonight. . . . Indiana Harbor, Indiana, August 5, 1931. Fifteen hundred jobless men stormed the plant of the Fruit Growers Express Company here, demanding that they be given jobs to keep from starving. The company’s answer was
Our Kids: The American Dream in Crisis
by Robert D. Putnam · 10 Mar 2015 · 459pp · 123,220 words
Armed Humanitarians
by Nathan Hodge · 1 Sep 2011 · 390pp · 119,527 words
Citizens of London: The Americans Who Stood With Britain in Its Darkest, Finest Hour
by Lynne Olson · 2 Feb 2010 · 564pp · 178,408 words