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Unhealthy societies: the afflictions of inequality

by Richard G. Wilkinson · 19 Nov 1996 · 268pp · 89,761 words

childhood and family conflict. Forthcoming. 1996. Montgomery, S.M., Bartley, M.J., Cook, D.G. and Wadsworth, M.E.J. Health and social precursors of unemployment in young men. Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health 50. 1996. Bibliography 241 Morris, J., Blane, D. and White, I.R. Levels of mortality, education and social

Hard Times: The Divisive Toll of the Economic Slump

by Tom Clark and Anthony Heath · 23 Jun 2014 · 401pp · 112,784 words

Ferguson, ‘Half UK's young black males are un-employed’, Guardian, 10 March 2012, at: www.guardian.co.uk/society/2012/mar/09/half-uk-young-black-men-unemployed 2. Jahoda et al., Marienthal, p. 52. 3. Komarovsky, The Unemployed Man and His Family, pp. 132–3. 4. Franklin Roosevelt, First Inaugural Address

The Precariat: The New Dangerous Class

by Guy Standing · 27 Feb 2011 · 209pp · 89,619 words

true for all minorities. Thus, while the post-2008 US recession has been a ‘mancession’, the hardest hit were black men. Half of all young black men were unemployed by late 2009, and this startling statistic was based on a labour force figure that excluded all those in prison, at a time when

SEDATED: How Modern Capitalism Created Our Mental Health Crisis

by James. Davies · 15 Nov 2021 · 307pp · 88,085 words

discrimination, which was a societal issue for which he could not be held responsible. She then pointed out that 50 per cent of urban young black men were unemployed largely for structural reasons, linked to a legacy of poverty, lack of opportunity, and discrimination. No matter how positively young black men envisaged their

Small Wars, Big Data: The Information Revolution in Modern Conflict

by Eli Berman, Joseph H. Felter, Jacob N. Shapiro and Vestal Mcintyre · 12 May 2018 · 517pp · 147,591 words

poverty to recruitment and support of rebellions. Following that line of reasoning, gainful employment and a route out of poverty should reduce violence—because poor, unemployed, disaffected young men make up the recruiting pool for insurgencies. If these men were given jobs, a shot at prosperity, and a place in society, the rebellion

The People: The Rise and Fall of the Working Class, 1910-2010

by Selina Todd · 9 Apr 2014 · 525pp · 153,356 words

‘had to be careful in all ways; you could be victimized if they didn’t like the colour of your eyes.’18 In several cities, unemployed young men were among those who volunteered, primarily in order to earn a few shillings, though some of them also expressed a conservative patriotic fervour. In Glasgow

Reskilling America: Learning to Labor in the Twenty-First Century

by Katherine S. Newman and Hella Winston · 18 Apr 2016 · 338pp · 92,465 words

follow this new path in the United States, we must be mindful of the need to incorporate those who are often left behind, especially young black men. Their unemployment rates are catastrophic. The Great Recession took a bad situation and made it far worse. These are the people who are in greatest need

The War on Normal People: The Truth About America's Disappearing Jobs and Why Universal Basic Income Is Our Future

by Andrew Yang · 2 Apr 2018 · 300pp · 76,638 words

have replaced 75 percent of the time they used to spend working with time on the computer, mostly playing video games. From 2004 to 2007, young, unemployed men without college degrees were spending 3.4 hours per week playing video games. By 2011 to 2014, the average time spent per week had more

State-Building: Governance and World Order in the 21st Century

by Francis Fukuyama · 7 Apr 2004

-thirds over a twenty-year period) came just at a point when these countries were experiencing a youth bulge and generating tens of thousands of unemployable young men. As in other parts of the developing world, much of this stagnation could be attributed to poor governance on the part of states that discouraged

Not Working: Where Have All the Good Jobs Gone?

by David G. Blanchflower · 12 Apr 2021 · 566pp · 160,453 words

S. Cohen. 2005. “Does Positive Affect Influence Health?” Psychological Bulletin 131 (6): 925–71. Pritchard, C. 1992. “Is There a Link between Suicide in Young Men and Unemployment? A Comparison of the UK with Other European Community Countries.” British Journal of Psychiatry 160: 750–56. Putnam, R. D. 2000. Bowling Alone: The Collapse