461 pages
English language
Published Jan. 18, 2018
Nomadland
surviving America in the twenty-first century Thorndike Press Large Print lifestyles
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From the North Dakota beet fields to California's National Forest campgrounds to Amazon's Texas CamperForce program, employers have discovered a new low-cost labor pool: transient older Americans. With Social security coming up short, these invisible casualties of the Great Recession have taken to the road by the tens of thousands, forming a growing community of migrant laborers dubbed "workampers." In a secondhand vehicle christened "Van Halen," Bruder hits the road to tell an eye-opening tale of the American economy's dark underbelly. -- Page 4 of cover.
Subjects
- Recreational vehicle living
- Retirement
- Working poor
- Van life
- Large type books
- Older people
- Casual labor
- Employment
- Retirees
- Migrant labor