American Unemployment
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Author |
: United States. Bureau of Labor Statistics |
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: |
Total Pages |
: 24 |
Release |
: 1987 |
ISBN-10 |
: UCR:31210024940304 |
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: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (04 Downloads) |
Synopsis How the Government Measures Unemployment by : United States. Bureau of Labor Statistics
Author |
: Richard K Vedder |
Publisher |
: NYU Press |
Total Pages |
: 407 |
Release |
: 1997-07-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780814788332 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0814788335 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (32 Downloads) |
Synopsis Out of Work by : Richard K Vedder
Argues the cause of unemployment may be the government itself Redefining the way we think about unemployment in America today, Out of Work offers devastating evidence that the major cause of high unemployment in the United States is the government itself.
Author |
: Frank Stricker |
Publisher |
: University of Illinois Press |
Total Pages |
: 390 |
Release |
: 2020-06-08 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780252052033 |
ISBN-13 |
: 025205203X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (33 Downloads) |
Synopsis American Unemployment by : Frank Stricker
The history of unemployment and concepts surrounding it remain a mystery to many Americans. Frank Stricker believes we need to understand this essential thread in our shared past. American Unemployment is an introduction for everyone that takes aim at misinformation, willful deceptions, and popular myths to set the record straight: Workers do not normally choose to be unemployed. In our current system, persistent unemployment is not an aberration. It is much more common than full employment, and the outcome of elite policy choices. Labor surpluses propped up by flawed unemployment numbers have helped to keep real wages stagnant for more than forty years. Prior to the New Deal and the era of big government, laissez-faire policies repeatedly led to depressions with heavy, even catastrophic, job losses. Undercounting the unemployed sabotages the creation of government job programs that can lead to more high-paying jobs and full employment. Written for non-economists, American Unemployment is a history and primer on vital economic topics that also provides a roadmap to better jobs and economic security.
Author |
: Sarah Damaske |
Publisher |
: Princeton University Press |
Total Pages |
: 336 |
Release |
: 2021-05-25 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780691219318 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0691219311 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (18 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Tolls of Uncertainty by : Sarah Damaske
An indispensable investigation into the American unemployment system and the ways gender and class affect the lives of those looking for work Through the intimate stories of those seeking work, The Tolls of Uncertainty offers a startling look at the nation’s unemployment system—who it helps, who it hurts, and what, if anything, we can do to make it fair. Drawing on interviews with one hundred men and women who have lost jobs across Pennsylvania, Sarah Damaske examines the ways unemployment shapes families, finances, health, and the job hunt. Damaske demonstrates that commonly held views of unemployment are either incomplete or just plain wrong. Shaped by a person’s gender and class, unemployment generates new inequalities that cast uncertainties on the search for work and on life chances beyond the world of work, threatening opportunity in America. Following in depth the lives of four individuals over the course of their unemployment experiences, Damaske offers insights into how the unemployed perceive their relationship to work. She reveals the high levels of blame that women who have lost jobs place on themselves, leading them to put their families’ needs above their own, sacrifice their health, and take on more tasks inside the home. This “guilt gap” illustrates how unemployment all too often exacerbates existing differences between men and women. Class privilege, too, gives some an advantage, while leaving others at the mercy of an underfunded unemployment system. Middle-class men are generally able to create the time and space to search for good work, but many others are bogged down by the challenges of poverty-level unemployment benefits and family pressures and fall further behind. Timely and engaging, The Tolls of Uncertainty posits that a new path must be taken if the nation’s unemployed are to find real relief.
Author |
: David Dembo |
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: |
Total Pages |
: 56 |
Release |
: 1994 |
ISBN-10 |
: PSU:000023127203 |
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: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (03 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Underbelly of the U.S. Economy by : David Dembo
Author |
: Richard K Vedder |
Publisher |
: NYU Press |
Total Pages |
: 407 |
Release |
: 1997-07-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780814788462 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0814788467 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (62 Downloads) |
Synopsis Out of Work by : Richard K Vedder
Redefining the way we think about unemployment in America today, Out of Work offers devastating evidence that the major cause of high unemployment in the United States is the government itself. An Independent Institute Book
Author |
: United States. Bureau of Employment Security |
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: |
Total Pages |
: 194 |
Release |
: 1942 |
ISBN-10 |
: CORNELL:31924002220204 |
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: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (04 Downloads) |
Synopsis Manual of State Employment Security Legislation by : United States. Bureau of Employment Security
Author |
: American Association for Labor Legislation |
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: |
Total Pages |
: 232 |
Release |
: 1914 |
ISBN-10 |
: UCAL:$B96165 |
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: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (65 Downloads) |
Synopsis Unemployment by : American Association for Labor Legislation
Author |
: Nicholas Eberstadt |
Publisher |
: Templeton Foundation Press |
Total Pages |
: 217 |
Release |
: 2016-09-12 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781599474700 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1599474700 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (00 Downloads) |
Synopsis Men Without Work by : Nicholas Eberstadt
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—lower today, in fact, than for most of the postwar era. But a closer look shows that something is going seriously wrong. This is the collapse of work—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—and that the work rate for US men has been spiraling downward for half a century. Astonishingly, the work rate for American males aged twenty-five to fifty-four—or “men of prime working age”—was actually slightly lower in 2015 than it had been in 1940: before the War, and at the tail end of the Great Depression. Today, nearly one in six prime working age men has no paid work at all—and nearly one in eight is out of the labor force entirely, neither working nor even looking for work. This new normal of “men without work,” argues Eberstadt, is “America’s invisible crisis.” So who are these men? How did they get there? What are they doing with their time? And what are the implications of this exit from work for American society? Nicholas Eberstadt lays out the issue and Jared Bernstein from the left and Henry Olsen from the right offer their responses to this national crisis. For more information, please visit http://menwithoutwork.com.
Author |
: Alexander Keyssar |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 492 |
Release |
: 1986-03-31 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0521297672 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780521297677 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (72 Downloads) |
Synopsis Out of Work by : Alexander Keyssar
Out of Work chronicles the history of unemployment in the United States. It traces the evolution of the problem of joblessness from the early decades of the nineteenth-century to the Great Depression of the 1930s. Challenging the widely held notion that the United States was a labour-scarce society in which jobs were plentiful, it argues that unemployment played a major role in American history long before the crash of the stock market in 1929. Focusing on the state of Massachusetts, Professor Kevssar analyses the economic and social changes that gave birth to the prevalent concept of unemployment. Drawing on previously untapped sources - including richly detailed statistics and vivid verbatim testimony - he demonstrates that joblessness was a pervasive feature of working-class life from the 1870s to the 1920s. The book describes the ingenious, yet quite costly, strategies that unemployed workers devised to cope with the joblessness in the absence of formal governmental assistance. It also explores the many dimensions of working-class life that were profoundly affected by recurrent layoffs and the chronic uncertainty of work. Finally, it demonstrates that the fundamental contours of the Massachusetts experience were repeated, sooner or later, throughout the United States.