![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() To sustain their living, many become migrant workers doing seasonal work and hard labour in Amazon warehouses to earn minimal wages.īruder’s book is rich in data and testimonials. Linda May and Swankie are two of these nomads in their 60s and 70s. But it was after the 2008 economic catastrophe that he saw the traffic to his site ‘exploded’. Many of the nomads were once middle-class Americans who had lost their jobs, homes, investments and retirement savings during the economic crisis.īob Wells, who started the website in 2005, is the guru of nomadic living. Bruder’s three-year research resulted in the non-fiction book Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twentieth-first Century (2017), an eye-opening account of a fringe population growing in large numbers after the 2008 financial meltdown. Her plan was to get acquainted with a group of modern-day nomads living in RV’s, vans, and car campers. It first started with journalist Jessica Bruder camping in a tent then later in a van for three winters in the desert around Quartzsite, Arizona. ![]()
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