San Antonio College Library

An Atlantic Monthly Press book.

Follows the Chavez family from the small Mexican town of Cheran to the fields of Missouri and California and the slaughterhouses of Wisconsin offering a portrait of immigrant life in the U.S.

From the beet fields of North Dakota to the National Forest campgrounds of California to Amazon's CamperForce program in Texas, employers have discovered a new, low-cost labor pool, made up largely of transient older Americans. Finding that social security comes up short, often underwater on mortgages, these invisible casualties of the Great Recession have taken to the road by the tens of thousands in late-model RVs, travel trailers, and vans, forming...