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Cargando... Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century (edición 2017)por Jessica Bruder
Información de la obraNomadland por Jessica Bruder
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Seventeen years into the 21st century, the news for the middle class is bleak. As one expert puts it in the book, the “three-legged stool” of retirement security — Social Security, private pensions and personal savings — has given way to “a pogo stick,” with Social Security as the single “wobbly” leg...When Bruder does stand aside, “Nomadland” soars. Her subjects are self-sufficient, proud people. Many in their 60s and beyond, they should be entering Shakespeare’s sixth age of man, “into the lean and slippered pantaloon/ With spectacles on nose and pouch/ On side.” Instead they are sans homes, sans money, sans security, sans everything, except their dignity and self-reliance. If you’re in a city but you live in a van, or a trailer, or a tent, you are considered homeless. But if you’re in the desert or the forest, you’re camping. Rationalizations such as these are what make “Nomadland” such a compelling look at a weirdly camouflaged swath of society that’s more entwined around us than we realize....Change often began with a job layoff. Then they downsized, still fell behind and finally realized that their earlier lives cannot be reclaimed. Losers? Sure, some have made bad decisions. But most simply have lost, for reasons over which they had no control.... “What further contortions — or even mutations — of the social order will appear in years to come?” she asks. “How many people will get crushed by the system? How many will find a way to escape it?” This is important, eye-opening journalism, presented for us to contemplate: What if? “Nomadland,” by Jessica Bruder, an important if frustrating new work influenced by such classics of immersion journalism as Barbara Ehrenreich’s “Nickel and Dimed,” looks at one strategy older workers have devised for “surviving America.” ... “Nomadland” is part of a fleet of recent books about the gig economy. More than most, it’s able to comfortably contain various contradictions: “The nomads I’d been interviewing for months were neither powerless victims nor carefree adventurers,” Bruder writes.... Bruder is a poised and graceful writer. But her book is plagued by odd evasions. Take race, the major one.... there is no acknowledgment of the more than three million migrant workers in this country, who perhaps pick the same fruit and work the same backbreaking jobs as Bruder’s white would-be retirees.... These omissions don’t doom the book; but they do mark it. This powerhouse of a book grew out of Bruder’s article, “The End of Retirement,” published in Harper’s in 2014. She examines the phenomenon of a new tribe of down-and-outers—“workampers,” or “houseless” people—who travel the country in vans as they follow short-term jobs, such as harvesting sugar beets, cleaning campsites and toilets in wilderness parks, and stocking and plucking merchandise from bins at an Amazon warehouse, averaging 15 miles a shift walking the facility’s concrete floors. Bruder spent three years shadowing and interviewing members of this “new kind of wandering tribe.” In the best immersive-journalism tradition, Bruder records her misadventures driving and living in a van and working in a beet field and at Amazon....Visceral and haunting reporting. Journalist Bruder (Burning Book) expands on an article originally published in Harper’s where she examined the phenomenon of aging Americans adjusting to an economic climate in which they can’t afford to retire. Many among them have discarded “stick and brick” traditional homes for “wheel estate” in the form of converted vans and RVs and have formed a nomadic culture of “workampers,” evoking the desperate resourcefulness of those who lived through the Great Depression.... Tracing individuals throughout their journeys from coast to coast, Bruder conveys the phenomenon’s human element, making this sociological study intimate, personal, and entertaining, even as the author critiques the economic factors behind the trend. Pertenece a las series editorialesJ'ai lu (13095) Tiene la adaptaciónPremiosDistincionesListas de sobresalientes
Desde los campos de remolacha de Dakota del Norte hasta los campamentos de National Forest de California y el programa CamperForce de Amazon en Texas, los empleadores han descubierto un nuevo grupo de mano de obra de bajo costo, compuesto principalmente por temporeros estadounidenses adultos. Al descubrir que el Seguro Social se queda corto y ahogados por las hipotecas, decenas de miles de estas vctimas invisibles de la Gran Recesin se han echado a la carretera en vehculos recreativos, remolques de viaje y furgonetas, formando una creciente comunidad de nmadas: migrantes trabajadores que se autodenominan workampers. En un vehculo de segunda mano que bautiza Van Halen, Jessica Bruder sale a la carretera para conocer a estos sujetos ms de cerca. Acompaando a su irreprimible protagonista Linda May y a otras personas en la limpieza de inodoros de un campamento, en el escaneo de productos en un almacn, en reuniones en el desierto y en el peligroso trabajo de la cosecha de remolacha, Bruder relata una historia convincente y reveladora sobre el oscuro vientre de la economa estadounidense, que presagia el precario futuro que puede esperarnos a muchos ms. Pero, al mismo tiempo, celebra la excepcional capacidad de recuperacin y creatividad de estos estadounidenses que han renunciado al arraigo ordinario para sobrevivir. Como Linda May, que suea con encontrar tierras en las que construir su propia casa sostenible Earthship, son personas que no han perdido la esperanza. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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