作者：JessicaBruder
出版社：W.W.Norton&Company
副标题：SurvivingAmericaintheTwenty-FirstCentury
出版年：2017-9-19
页数：320
定价：USD26.95
装帧：Hardcover
ISBN：9780393249316
内容简介
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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 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.
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现在对电影充满了好奇
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My type of book but the audio voice is not the most pleasant.
全书给我的感觉就是复杂、矛盾与无奈的交织。心情、情绪复杂，一方面作者充满了对流浪老人们的同情与关怀，同时又被他们的乐观互助所感动。矛盾既体现在国富民穷上，也体现在这个群体与外界社会、以及他们自己的内心；以亚马逊为首的资本家们以最低工资压榨这群老人、却又鼓吹“自由另类的退休生活”。作者对制度与现状的无奈，出于种种原因却回避了反思与探究、乃至解决方案（也许作者并无意改变现状？）。在无家可归（homel…
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