china was responsible for about 2 million american manufacturing jobs lost, the so-called china shock. sounds like a huge number, until you put it into context. the number is for the period 2000 to 2015, so the average job loss for each year was 130,000. now, how many jobs do american workers lose in a typical year through the normal churning of the u.s. economy? 60 million. of those, a third are voluntary, a third can be attributed to cause not related to foreign trade, such as an employer closing or relocating, and that leaves a third, 20 million jobs, caused by external shocks. in other words, posen writes, for each manufacturing job lost to chinese competition, there were roughly 150 jobs lost to similar feeling shock in other industries. posen points out only about 16%
china was responsible for about 2 million american manufacturing jobs lost, the so-called china shock. it sounds like a huge number, until you put it into context. the number is for the period 2000 to 2015. so the average job loss for each year was 130,000. now, how many jobs do american workers lose in a typical year through the normal churning of the u.s. economy? 60 million. of those, a third are voluntary, a third can be attributed to cause not related to foreign trade, such as an employer closing or relocating, and that leaves a third, 20 million jobs, caused by external shocks. in other words, posen writes, for each manufacturing job lost to chinese competition, there were roughly 150 jobs lost to similar feeling shock in other industries. posen points out only about 16% of noncollege educated workers
but often for poor men, we have suggested since you can t make a lot of money, what you re going to have to do is man up and manning up, if you can t write the big check, manning up becomes the aggression, right? certainly at the lower end of the economic spectrum, the economic consequences have hit men much harder. we know it in terms of construction jobs lost, manufacturing jobs lost. there s a lot of stress out there, lot of anxiety and a lot of undermining of traditional manhood in terms of your ability to support a family. i m going to add, it s not only one s ideals of manliness and manhood, it s what s imposed upon you in society. i happened to be in wyoming three months ago and i was talking a lot with a closeted oil rig worker, so his ideals of masculinity that you re talking about in terms of class, it s not just what we think of masculinity and your carriage toting fathers, it s the ideals imposed on different people and it matters differently in how it expresses itself.