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Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press, A part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
461 pages (large print) : illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
From the North Dakota beet fields to California's National Forest campgrounds to Amazon's Texas CamperForce program, employers have discovered a new low-cost labor pool: transient older Americans. With Social security coming up short, these invisible casualties of the Great Recession have taken to the road by the tens of thousands, forming a growing community of migrant laborers dubbed "workampers." In a secondhand vehicle christened "Van Halen,"...