From North Dakota beet fields to California campgrounds to Amazon's Texas CamperForce program, employers have found a new cheap labor pool: transient older Americans. Casualties of the Great Recession, they've taken to the road by the tens of thousands in a growing migrant labor community of "workampers." 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 Jessica Bruder hit the road to tell their eye-opening tale. NOW, 2021, A MAJOR FILM. ISBN for Audiobook 978-1681-687193 -- 9 hours.