作者:
Jessica Bruder 出版社: W. W. Norton & Company 副标题: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century 出版年: 2017-9-19 页数: 320 定价: USD 26.95 装帧: Hardcover ISBN: 9780393249316
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 in astonishing numbers, forming a new community of nomads: RV and van-dwelling migra...
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 in astonishing numbers, forming a new community of nomads: RV and van-dwelling migrant laborers, or "workampers." Building on her groundbreaking Harper's cover story, "The End of Retirement," which brought attention to these formerly settled members of the middle class, Jessica Bruder follows one such RVer, Linda, between physically taxing seasonal jobs and reunions of her new van-dweller family, or "vanily." Bruder tells a compelling, eye-opening tale of both the economy's dark underbelly and the extraordinary resilience, creativity, and hope of these hardworking, quintessential Americans?many of them single women?who have traded rootedness for the dream of a better life.
作者简介
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Jessica Bruder is a journalist who writes about subcultures and resilience.
For her most recent book, "Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century" (W.W. Norton & Co.), she spent months living in a camper van, documenting itinerant Americans who gave up traditional housing and hit the road full time, enabling them to travel from job to job and carve out a place for...
Jessica Bruder is a journalist who writes about subcultures and resilience.
For her most recent book, "Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century" (W.W. Norton & Co.), she spent months living in a camper van, documenting itinerant Americans who gave up traditional housing and hit the road full time, enabling them to travel from job to job and carve out a place for themselves in our precarious economy. The project spanned three years and more than 15,000 miles of driving—from coast to coast and from Mexico to the Canadian border.
Jessica has been teaching at Columbia Journalism School since 2008. She has written for publications including Harper's Magazine, The Nation, WIRED, The Washington Post, The Associated Press, The International Herald Tribune, The New York Times Magazine, The Christian Science Monitor, O: The Oprah Magazine, Inc. Magazine, Reuters and CNNMoney.com, along with The Oregonian and The New York Observer — where she worked as a staff writer — and Fortune Small Business magazine, where she was a senior editor. Her long-form stories have won a James Aronson Award for Social Justice Journalism and a Deadline Club Award.
Many of the people I met felt that they’d spent too long losing a rigged game. And so they found a way to hack the system. They gave up traditional “stick-and-brick” homes, breaking the shackles of rent and mortgages. They moved into vans, RVs, and trailers, traveled from place to place following good weather, and kept their gas tanks full by working seasonal jobs. “The first time you sleep...
2021-01-06 22:24
Many of the people I met felt that they’d spent too long losing a rigged game. And so they found a way to hack the system. They gave up traditional “stick-and-brick” homes, breaking the shackles of rent and mortgages. They moved into vans, RVs, and trailers, traveled from place to place following good weather, and kept their gas tanks full by working seasonal jobs. 引自第16页“The first time you sleep in your car downtown, you feel like a horrible failure or a homeless person,” she explained. “But that’s the great thing about people: We make everything habit.”引自第26页I’ve got cool forests for summer fun,
Winterin’ in the desert sun.
I’m an old gypsy soul with new goals,
Queen of the Road!引自第28页“I travel full time with a full set of stuff/Not less than I need or more than enough.”引自第29页“There’s a crack in everything. That is how the light gets in.”
—LEONARD COHEN
“The capitalists don’t want anyone living off their economic grid.”
—ANONYMOUS COMMENTER,
AZDAILYSUN.COM”
Excerpt From: Jessica Bruder. “Nomadland.” iBooks. 引自第3页
Many of the people I met felt that they’d spent too long losing a rigged game. And so they found a way to hack the system. They gave up traditional “stick-and-brick” homes, breaking the shackles of rent and mortgages. They moved into vans, RVs, and trailers, traveled from place to place following good weather, and kept their gas tanks full by working seasonal jobs. “The first time you sleep...
2021-01-06 22:24
Many of the people I met felt that they’d spent too long losing a rigged game. And so they found a way to hack the system. They gave up traditional “stick-and-brick” homes, breaking the shackles of rent and mortgages. They moved into vans, RVs, and trailers, traveled from place to place following good weather, and kept their gas tanks full by working seasonal jobs. 引自第16页“The first time you sleep in your car downtown, you feel like a horrible failure or a homeless person,” she explained. “But that’s the great thing about people: We make everything habit.”引自第26页I’ve got cool forests for summer fun,
Winterin’ in the desert sun.
I’m an old gypsy soul with new goals,
Queen of the Road!引自第28页“I travel full time with a full set of stuff/Not less than I need or more than enough.”引自第29页“There’s a crack in everything. That is how the light gets in.”
—LEONARD COHEN
“The capitalists don’t want anyone living off their economic grid.”
—ANONYMOUS COMMENTER,
AZDAILYSUN.COM”
Excerpt From: Jessica Bruder. “Nomadland.” iBooks. 引自第3页
Many of the people I met felt that they’d spent too long losing a rigged game. And so they found a way to hack the system. They gave up traditional “stick-and-brick” homes, breaking the shackles of rent and mortgages. They moved into vans, RVs, and trailers, traveled from place to place following good weather, and kept their gas tanks full by working seasonal jobs. “The first time you sleep...
2021-01-06 22:24
Many of the people I met felt that they’d spent too long losing a rigged game. And so they found a way to hack the system. They gave up traditional “stick-and-brick” homes, breaking the shackles of rent and mortgages. They moved into vans, RVs, and trailers, traveled from place to place following good weather, and kept their gas tanks full by working seasonal jobs. 引自第16页“The first time you sleep in your car downtown, you feel like a horrible failure or a homeless person,” she explained. “But that’s the great thing about people: We make everything habit.”引自第26页I’ve got cool forests for summer fun,
Winterin’ in the desert sun.
I’m an old gypsy soul with new goals,
Queen of the Road!引自第28页“I travel full time with a full set of stuff/Not less than I need or more than enough.”引自第29页“There’s a crack in everything. That is how the light gets in.”
—LEONARD COHEN
“The capitalists don’t want anyone living off their economic grid.”
—ANONYMOUS COMMENTER,
AZDAILYSUN.COM”
Excerpt From: Jessica Bruder. “Nomadland.” iBooks. 引自第3页
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