Missing: Men at Work
New Books in Anthropology
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The Men Without Work Problem, America's Invisible Crisis
For 50 years without much comment, we had been suffering a collapse of work for men. In the aftermath of the COVID pandemic, we seem to have a new emerging face to the flight from work in modern America. We're about 3 million, roughly speaking, about 3 million persons short in terms of labor force. That's not all prime age men; there is also a shortfall of older workers and younger women.
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