País nómada

From the beet fields of North Dakota to the National Forest camps of California to Amazon's CamperForce program in Texas, employers have discovered a new pool of low-cost workforce, comprised primarily of adult American seasonal workers. Finding out that Social Security falls short and choked on mortgages, tens of thousands of these invisible victims of the Great Recession have hit the road in RVs, travel trailers and vans, forming a growing community of nomads: migrants. workers who call themselves workampers. In a second-hand vehicle she christens "Van Halen," Jessica Bruder hits the road to get to know these guys more closely. Accompanying his irrepressible protagonist Linda May and others in cleaning campground toilets, scanning produce in a warehouse, meetings in the desert, and the dangerous work of beet harvesting, Bruder tells a compelling story and revealing about the dark belly of the US economy, which heralds the precarious future that may await many more. But at the same time, it celebrates the exceptional resilience and creativity of these Americans who have renounced ordinary roots in order to survive. Like Linda May, who dreams of finding land on which to build her own sustainable "Earthship" house, they are people who have not lost hope.