03464cam a2200409Ii 4500001001300000003000700013005001700020008004100037015001900078016001800097020003100115020002800146035002200174040012500196050002200321100003700343245008000380260001200460264006600472264001200538300005400550336002700604337002900631338002800660504006700688505054200755520153101297648002102828650002102849650002802870650001802898650003402916650002802950650002702978651002503005655002403030on1059259906US-DLC20200120093944.0181030t20192019njua     b    001 0 eng d  aGBB9761952bnb7 a0193815532Uk  a9780691181240q(hardcover)  a0691181241q(hardcover)  a(OCoLC)1059259906  aYDXbengerdacYDXdBDXdOCLCQdERASAdUKMGBdOCLCOdGO3dAKCdCLEdOCLCFdJASdCHVBKdUAPdOCLCOdCTXdYDXITdOCLCQdAU 4aHD5709b.B53 20191 aBlanchflower, David G.,eauthor.10aNot working :bwhere have all the good jobs gone? /cDavid G. Blanchflower.  c©2019. 1aPrinceton, New Jersey :bPrinceton University Press,c©2019. 4c©2019.  a440 p:billustrations (black and white) ;c25 cm.  atextbtxt2rdacontent.  aunmediatedbn2rdamedia.  avolumebnc2rdacarrier.  aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 357-421) and index.0 aWhat the Whole World Wants Is a Good Job -- Part I. The Problem: The Great Recession Exposed Underlying Fractures. Unemployment and Its Consequences -- Wage Growth and the Lack of It -- The Semi- Slump and the Housing Market -- Underemployment -- Part II. The Response to the Great Recession. Something Horrible Happened -- Sniffing the Air and Spotting the Great Recession -- The People Have Lost Their Pep -- Somebody Has to Be Blamed -- Disastrous Cries for Help -- Part III. What to Do? Full Employment -- Put the Pedal to the Metal.8 aDon't trust low unemployment numbers as proof that the labor market is doing fine - it isn't. Not Working is about those who can't find full-time work at a decent wage - the underemployed - and how their plight is contributing to widespread despair, a worsening drug epidemic, and the unchecked rise of right-wing populism. In this revelatory and outspoken book, David Blanchflower draws on his acclaimed work in the economics of labor and well-being to explain why today's postrecession economy is vastly different from what came before. He calls out our leaders and policymakers for failing to see the Great Recession coming, and for their continued failure to address one of the most unacknowledged social catastrophes of our time. Blanchflower shows how many workers are underemployed or have simply given up trying to find a well-paying job, how wage growth has not returned to prerecession levels despite rosy employment indicators, and how general prosperity has not returned since the crash of 2008. Standard economic measures are often blind to these forgotten workers, which is why Blanchflower practices the "economics of walking about "--Seeing for himself how ordinary people are faring under the recovery, and taking seriously what they say and do. Not Working is his candid report on how the young and the less skilled are among the worst casualties of underemployment, how immigrants are taking the blame, and how the epidemic of unhappiness and self-destruction will continue to spread unless we deal with it. 7a2000-20992fast. 0aUnderemployment. 0aDisguised unemployment. 0aLabor market. 7aDisguised unemployment.2fast 7aEconomic history.2fast 7aUnderemployment.2fast 7aGreat Britain.2fast 02localaPrint books.