E-audiobook
Nomadland : surviving America in the twenty-first century / by Jessica Bruder ; read by Karen White.
"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 these hardworking, quintessential Americans? Many of them single women? Who have traded rootedness for the dream of a better life." -- Provided by publisher.
Détails de la notice
- ISBN : 9781681687193
- ISBN : 1681687194
- Description physique : 1 online resource (1 audio file (9 hr., 58 min., 06 sec.))
- Édition : Unabridged.
- Éditeur : [Prince Frederick] : HighBridge Audio, 2017.
- Distributeur: Made available through hoopla
Descriptions du contenu
- Note de dépouillement structurée :
- 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.
- Note sur les participants ou les interprètes :
- Read by Karen White.
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- Older people > Employment > United States.
Retirees > Employment > United States.
Retirement > Economic aspects > United States.
Casual labor > United States.
Working poor > United States.
Migrant labor > United States.
Recreational vehicle living > United States.
Van life > United States.
Retraités > Travail > États-Unis.
Travailleurs occasionnels > États-Unis.
Travailleurs pauvres > États-Unis.
Travailleurs migrants > États-Unis.
Caravanage > États-Unis.
Casual labor.
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Older people > Employment.
Recreational vehicle living.
Retirees > Employment.
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