![]() ![]() 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. Rebecca Solnit Book Synopsis From the beet fields of North Dakota to the National Forest campgrounds of California to Amazons CamperForce program in Texas, employers have discovered a new, low-cost labor pool, made up largely of transient older Americans. People who thought the 2008 financial collapse was over a long time ago need to meet the people Jessica Bruder got to know in this scorching, beautifully written, vivid, disturbing (and occasionally wryly funny) book. About the Book The New York Times bestseller and inspiration for Chlo Zhaos 2020 Golden Lion award-winning film starring Frances McDormand. ![]()
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