Filter By Subjects
Casual labor United States Migrant labor United States Older people Employment United States Recreational vehicle living United States Retirees Employment United States Retirement Economic aspects United States United States Van life United States Working poor Working poor United StatesFilter By Authors
Bruder, JessicaFilter By Subjects
Casual labor United States Migrant labor United States Older people Employment United States Recreational vehicle living United States Retirees Employment United States Retirement Economic aspects United States United States Van life United States Working poor Working poor United StatesFilter By Authors
Bruder, JessicaBruder, Jessica
Summary: In a secondhand vehicle she christens "Van Halen," Bruder hits the road to get to know her subjects--transient older Americans who call themselves "workampers." From campground toilet cleaning to warehouse product scanning to desert reunions and the dangerous work of beet harvesting, Bruder tells a compelling, eye-opening tale of the dark underbelly of the American economy--one that foreshadows...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 331.3 BRUCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CDA 331.3Bruder, Jessica
Summary: "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 mortgages, these invisible casualties of the Great Recession have taken to the road by the tens of...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: W. W. Norton & Company 2017