Grab your lunch and enjoy a review of "Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century" by Jessica Bruder, presented by Travis Lowe, assistant professor of sociology, The University of Tulsa.
Sponsored by the Friends of the Tulsa City-County Libraries.
From the beet fields of North Dakota 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.” In a secondhand vehicle she christens “Van Halen,” author Bruder hits the road to get to know her subjects more intimately.
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