Nomadland : surviving America in the twenty-first century /

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 mo...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Bruder, Jessica (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : W. W. Norton & Company, [2017]
Edition:First Edition.
Subjects:
Older people > Employment > United States.
Casual labor > United States.
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Table of Contents:
  • Foreword
  • The squeeze inn
  • The end
  • Surviving America
  • Escape plan
  • Amazon town
  • The gathering place
  • The rubber tramp rendezvous
  • Halen
  • Some unbeetable experiences
  • The H word
  • Homecoming
  • Coda: the octopus in the coconut
  • Acknowledgments
  • Notes.

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