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Nomadland : surviving America in the twenty-first century / Jessica Bruder.

Summary:

From the beet fields of North Dakota to the National Forest campgrounds of California to Amazon's CamperForce program in Texas, employers have discovered a new, low-cost labor pool, made up largely of transient older Americans. Finding that social security comes up short, often underwater on mortgages, these invisible casualties of the Great Recession have taken to the road by the tens of thousands in late-model RVs, travel trailers, and vans, forming a growing community of nomads: migrant laborers who call themselves "workampers." Bruder tells a compelling, eye-opening tale of the dark underbelly of the American economy - one that foreshadows the precarious future that may await many more of us. At the same time, she celebrates the exceptional resilience and creativity of these quintessential Americans who have given up ordinary rootedness to survive.

Record details

ISBN: 9780393249316 (hardcover)
Physical Description: xiv, 273 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: New York, NY : W. W. Norton & Company, [2017]
Copyright: ©2017

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references.
Formatted Contents Note:	Foreword -- Squeeze inn -- End -- Surviving America -- Escape plan -- Amazon town -- Gathering place -- Rubber tramp rendezvous -- Halen -- Some unbeetable experiences -- H word -- Homecoming -- Coda: the octopus in the coconut -- Acknowledgments -- Notes.