We need universal healthcare and a better safety net for workers period!!! But also yeah definitely fuck Amazon (which I know owns GoodReads.help. Jessica Bruder’s Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century is the latest pick for Now Read This, the PBS NewsHour/New York Times book club. But all of these jobs suck-the beet industry and state parks are also taking advantage of these seasonal workers. starred review Booklist 'The campsite as the home of last resort, the RV used not for vacation but for survival: these are the makings of a new dystopia.
They mock themselves and glorify their betters. No such tales are told by the American poor. (I still liked the movie although I know that's controversial!) I also think it's interesting that so much has been made of the movie showing the Amazon CamperForce program-which is a big part of the book and which like, yeah, does totally suck for workers. Every other nation has folk traditions of men who were poor but extremely wise and virtuous, and therefore more estimable than anyone with power and gold. I read this just before watching the movie and the movie clearly focuses more on the latter aspect, which I can understand, but I was glad to have the additional context from the book in mind as I watched it. Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century is a 2017 nonfiction book by American journalist Jessica Bruder about the phenomenon of older Americans who, following the Great Recession from 2007 to 2009, adopted transient lifestyles traveling around the United States in search of seasonal work (vandwelling). I really appreciated Bruder's research and the thoughtful, compelling way she's presented it here-it's a stark look at how little safety net there is for older Americans, but she also captures some of the joy and camaraderie that some of the nomads manage to eke out in spite of the difficulties they face.
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