From the beet fields of North Dakota to the 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 adults. These invisible casualties of the Great Recession have taken to the
road by the tens of thousands in RVs and modified vans forming a growing community of nomads.
Nomadland tells a revelatory tale of the dark underbelly of the American economy - one which
foreshadows the precarious future that may await many more of us. At the same time it
celebrates the exceptional resilience and creativity of these Americans who have given up
ordinary rootedness to survive but have not given up hope.
