Title Nomadland : surviving America in the twenty-first century / by Jessica Bruder.

Publication Info.	Waterville : Thorndike Press, A part of Gale, a Cengage Company, 2018.
	©2017

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East Hartford, Raymond Library - Adult Department	LP 331.39 BRUDER	Check Shelf
Plainville Public Library - Large Print Materials	LARGE PRINT 331.398 BRU	Check Shelf

Description	461 pages (large print) : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Physical Medium	large print rda
Series	Thorndike Press large print lifestyles
	Thorndike Press large print lifestyles.
Note	Originally published: New York : W.W. Norton & Company, [2017].
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references.
Contents	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.
Summary	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.
Subject	Older people -- Employment -- United States.
	Casual labor -- United States.
	Large type books.
	Retirees -- Employment -- United States.
	Retirement -- Economic aspects -- United States.
	Working poor -- United States.
	Migrant labor -- United States.
	Recreational vehicle living -- United States.
	Van life -- United States.
	BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Economic Conditions.
	SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Social Classes & Economic Disparity.
	SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Human Geography.
	Casual labor. (OCoLC)fst00848478
	Large type books. (OCoLC)fst00992678
	Migrant labor. (OCoLC)fst01020711
	Older people -- Employment. (OCoLC)fst01199105
	Recreational vehicle living. (OCoLC)fst01091916
	Retirees -- Employment. (OCoLC)fst01096260
	Retirement -- Economic aspects. (OCoLC)fst01096293
	Van life. (OCoLC)fst01163998
	Working poor. (OCoLC)fst01180666
	United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
Genre/Form	Large type books.
	Large type books.
ISBN	9781432846435 (hardcover)
	1432846434 (hardcover)

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