num_pages: 288
description: An alternate cover edition of ISBN 9780393356311 can be found here.From the beet fields of North Dakota to the campgrounds of California to Amazons CamperForce program in Texas employers have discovered a new low-cost labor pool made up largely of transient older adults. These invisible casualties of the Great Recession have taken to the road by the tens of thousands in RVs and modified vans forming a growing community of nomads.Nomadland tells a revelatory tale of the dark underbelly of the American economyone which foreshadows the precarious future that may await many more of us. At the same time it celebrates the exceptional resilience and creativity of these Americans who have given up ordinary rootedness to survive but have not given up hope.
language: English
title: Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century
publisher: W. W. Norton & Company