Nomadland Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century by Jessica Bruder
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epub | 25.74 MB | English | Isbn: 1800750307 | Author: Jessica Bruder | Year: 2017
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A revelatory work of in-depth narrative journalism about a new American workforce and a shift away from retirement as we know it.
From the beet fields of North Dakota to the wilderness campgrounds of California to an Amazon warehouse in Texas, people who once might have kicked back to enjoy their sunset years are hard at work. Underwater on mortgages or finding that Social Security comes up short, they're hitting the road in astonishing numbers, forming a new community of nomads: RV and van-dwelling migrant laborers, or "workampers."
Building on her groundbreaking Harper's cover story, "The End of Retirement," which brought attention to these formerly settled members of the middle class, Jessica Bruder follows one such RVer, Linda, between physically taxing seasonal jobs and reunions of her new van-dweller family, or "vanily." Bruder tells a compelling, eye-opening tale of both the economy's dark underbelly and the extraordinary resilience, creativity, and hope of...
Category:Labor & Industrial Economic Relations, Human Geography, Social Classes & Economic Disparity
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