The editors of The Florida Times-Union recently analyzed the alarming increase in joblessness among American men since 1965.
But they omit two very important economic trends that have affected U.S. employment over the same period: automation and globalization. Instead of providing a critical analysis of the loss of manufacturing jobs in the U.S. or an acknowledgment of the continuing decimation of the middle class, the editors provide an unhelpful moral critique of men who don’t work.
Readers deserve a more far-reaching analysis of the American employment landscape — which has permanently changed — in order to begin thinking about solutions to […]
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