Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century [Audiobook] download free by Jessica Bruder
- Listen audiobook: Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century
- Author: Jessica Bruder
- Release date: 2017/6/24
- Publisher: WW NORTON & CO
- Language: English
- Genre or Collection: Business, Finance and Law
- ISBN: 9780393249316
- Rating: 9.91 of 10
- Votes: 109
- Review by: Liam Tarver
- Review rating: 9.33 of 10
- Review Date: 2018/9/1
- Duration: 4H2M28S in 256 kbps (64 MB)
- Date of creation of the audiobook: 2018-08-15
- You can listen to this audiobook in formats: MPEG4, MPEG-4 DST, WAV, MP3, WMA, FLAC (compression ZIP, CPIO, AZW, RAR, ARJ, JAR)
- Total pages original book: 320
- Includes a PDF summary of 38 pages
- Duration of the summary (audio): 28M41S (7.6 MB)
- Description or summary of the audiobook: 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 thousands in late-model RVs, travel trailers, and vans, forming a growing community of nomads: migrant laborers who call themselves 'workampers.' On frequently traveled routes between seasonal jobs, Jessica Bruder meets people from all walks of life: a former professor, a McDonald's vice president, a minister, a college administrator, and a motorcycle cop, among many others-including her irrepressible protagonist, a onetime cocktail waitress, Home Depot clerk, and general contractor named Linda May. In a secondhand vehicle she christens 'Van Halen,' Bruder hits the road to get to know her subjects more intimately. Accompanying Linda May and others from campground toilet cleaning to warehouse product scanning to desert reunions, then moving on to the dangerous work of beet harvesting, Bruder tells a compelling, eye-opening tale of the dark underbelly of the American economy-one that foreshadows the precarious future that may await many more of us. At the same time, she celebrates the exceptional resilience and creativity of these quintessential Americans who have given up ordinary rootedness to survive. Like Linda May, who dreams of finding land on which to build her own sustainable 'Earthship' home, they have not given up hope.
- Other categories, genre or collection: Social Classes, Sociology: Work & Labour, Age Groups: The Elderly, Labour Economics, Economics, Religious Books, Employment & Unemployment
- Download servers: 4Shared, FreakShare, Torrent, LaciCloud, Google Drive. Compressed in ZIP, CPIO, AZW, RAR, ARJ, JAR
- Format: Hardback
- Approximate value: 29.74 USD
- Dimensions: 165x244x25mm
- Weight: 550g
- Printed by: Not Available
- Published in: New York, United States
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