THOMAS J. COTTLE is Professor of Education at Boston University. He has written over 25 books, including Private Lives and Public Accounts, A Family Album, Children in Jail, Children's Secrets, Hidden Survivors, Time's Children, Like Fathers, Like Sons, Barred from School, Perceiving Time, Black Children-White Dreams, and Black Testimony. His work has appeared in many scholarly journals as well as mainstream media.

• Preface Introduction Mr. Housewife U.S.A.: Kenneth Hawkins You Work Nine to Five or You're Dead: George Wilkinson They Want Me To Be Invisible: Peter Rosenbloom A One In a Million Chance to Earn a Living: Ollie Sindon Never Dreamed it Would Get This Bad: Cyrus Mullen Only One Thing That Matters is Working Steady: Cleveland Wilkes, Jeremiah Kelser, Eddie Harrington, Jr. Shame Like Nobody Could Know: William Leominster, Aaron Donane, and Jack Blum After Unraveling, A Better Outcome: Gabriel Forman The Shame of Long Term Unemployment The Trauma of Long Term Unemployment Epilogue Bibliography

THOMAS J. COTTLE is Professor of Education at Boston University. He has written over 25 books, including Private Lives and Public Accounts, A Family Album, Children in Jail, Children's Secrets, Hidden Survivors, Time's Children, Like Fathers, Like Sons, Barred from School, Perceiving Time, Black Children-White Dreams, and Black Testimony. His work has appeared in many scholarly journals as well as mainstream media.

• Preface Introduction Mr. Housewife U.S.A.: Kenneth Hawkins You Work Nine to Five or You're Dead: George Wilkinson They Want Me To Be Invisible: Peter Rosenbloom A One In a Million Chance to Earn a Living: Ollie Sindon Never Dreamed it Would Get This Bad: Cyrus Mullen Only One Thing That Matters is Working Steady: Cleveland Wilkes, Jeremiah Kelser, Eddie Harrington, Jr. Shame Like Nobody Could Know: William Leominster, Aaron Donane, and Jack Blum After Unraveling, A Better Outcome: Gabriel Forman The Shame of Long Term Unemployment The Trauma of Long Term Unemployment Epilogue Bibliography

THOMAS J. COTTLE is Professor of Education at Boston University. He has written over 25 books, including Private Lives and Public Accounts, A Family Album, Children in Jail, Children's Secrets, Hidden Survivors, Time's Children, Like Fathers, Like Sons, Barred from School, Perceiving Time, Black Children-White Dreams, and Black Testimony. His work has appeared in many scholarly journals as well as mainstream media.

• Preface Introduction Mr. Housewife U.S.A.: Kenneth Hawkins You Work Nine to Five or You're Dead: George Wilkinson They Want Me To Be Invisible: Peter Rosenbloom A One In a Million Chance to Earn a Living: Ollie Sindon Never Dreamed it Would Get This Bad: Cyrus Mullen Only One Thing That Matters is Working Steady: Cleveland Wilkes, Jeremiah Kelser, Eddie Harrington, Jr. Shame Like Nobody Could Know: William Leominster, Aaron Donane, and Jack Blum After Unraveling, A Better Outcome: Gabriel Forman The Shame of Long Term Unemployment The Trauma of Long Term Unemployment Epilogue Bibliography