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100 1 $aBruder, Jessica.
245 10$aNomadland :$bsurviving America in the twenty-first century /$cJessica Bruder.
246 33$aNomad land
260 $aNew York, N.Y. :$bW.W. Norton & Company, Inc.,$c2018.
300 $axiv, 273 p. :$bill. ;$c21 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references.
520 $aFrom the beet fields of North Dakota to the National Forest campgrounds of California to Amazon's CamperForce program in Texas, employers have discovered a new, low-cost labor pool, made up largely of transient older Americans. Finding that social security comes up short, often underwater on mortgages, these invisible casualties of the Great Recession have taken to the road by the tens of thousands in late-model RVs, travel trailers, and vans, forming a growing community of nomads: migrant laborers who call themselves "workampers." In a secondhand vehicle she christens "Van Halen," Jessica Bruder hits the road to get to know her subjects more intimately.
650 0$aCasual labor$zUnited States.
650 0$aWorking poor$zUnited States.
650 0$aMigrant labor$zUnited States.
650 0$aRecreational vehicle living$zUnited States.
650 0$aVan life$zUnited States.
650 0$aOlder people$xEmployment$zUnited States.
650 0$aRetirees$xEmployment$zUnited States.
650 0$aRetirement$xEconomic aspects$zUnited States.