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020			_a9781800750302 _qpaperback
035			_a(OCoLC)1021807626
035			_a(OCoLC)on1021807626
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050		4	_aHD6280 _b.B77 2018
082	0	4	_a331.3/980973 _223
100	1		_aBruder, Jessica, _eauthor.
245	1	0	_aNomadland : _bsurviving America in the twenty-first century / _cJessica Bruder
246	3		_aNomad land
264		1	_aLondon : _bSwift Press _c2021
264		4	_c©2017
300			_axiv, 273 pages : _billustrations ; _c21 cm
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references.
505	0		_aForeword -- Part one: The Squeeze Inn -- The end -- Surviving America -- Escape plan -- Part two: Amazon town -- The gathering place -- The Rubber Tramp Rendezvous -- Halen -- Some unbeetable experiences -- Part three: The H word -- Homecoming -- Coda: The octopus in the coconut.
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. Accompanying her irrepressible protagonist, Linda May, and others, from campground toilet cleaning to warehouse product scanning to desert reunions, then moving on to the dangerous work of beet harvesting, Bruder tells an eye-opening tale of the dark underbelly of the American economy -- foreshadowing the precarious future that awaits 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. Like Linda May, who dreams of finding land on which to build her own sustainable "Earthship" home, they have not given up hope.
650		0	_aOlder people _xEmployment _zUnited States.
650		0	_aRetirees _xEmployment _zUnited States.
650		0	_aRetirement _xEconomic aspects _zUnited States.
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.
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