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1 online resource (1 audio file) |
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100000 |
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digital rda |
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audio file rda |
| Summary |
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. |
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Downloadable audio file. |
| Performer |
Read by Karen White. |
| Summary |
The author chronicles her time embedded in a pool of transient older Americans who have taken to the road in late-model RVs, travel trailers, and vans, forming a growing community of nomads, migrant laborers who call themselves "workampers." |
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Requires Boundless App. |
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Older people -- Employment -- United States.
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Casual labor -- United States.
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Retirees -- Employment -- United States.
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Retirement -- Economic aspects -- United States.
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Working poor -- United States.
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Migrant labor -- United States.
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Recreational vehicle living -- United States.
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Van life -- United States.
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Casual labor. |
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Migrant labor. |
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Older people -- Employment. |
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Recreational vehicle living. |
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Retirees -- Employment. |
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Retirement -- Economic aspects. |
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Van life. |
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Working poor. |
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United States. |
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Audiobooks.
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Downloadable audio books. |
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Audiobooks.
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White, Karen (Karen Elizabeth), narrator.
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| Other Form: |
Electronic reproduction of (manifestation): Bruder, Jessica. Nomadland [Prince Frederick, Maryland] : HighBridge, a division of Recorded Books, [2017] 9781681687186 (NjBwBT)bl2017040337 (OCoLC)981117223 |
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9781681687193 : |
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1681687194 : |
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