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Nomadland : surviving America in the twenty-first century /

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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...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Bruder, Jessica (Author)
Format: Audio Book
Language:English
Published: New York : W. W. Norton & Company, [2017]
Subjects:
Older people > Employment > United States.
Casual labor > United States.
Travailleurs occasionnels > États-Unis.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Labor
POLITICAL SCIENCE / Labor & Industrial Relations
Casual labor.
Older people > Employment.
United States.
Electronic audio books.
Downloadable audio books.
Audiobooks.
Livres audio.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • 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.