Title Empire of scrounge : inside the urban underground of dumpster diving, trash picking, and street scavenging / Jeff Ferrell

Published New York : New York University Press, ©2006

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Description 1 online resource (ix, 222 pages) : illustrations Series Alternative criminology series Alternative criminology series. Contents Sordid signs -- Street life -- Street knowledge -- Salvage operations -- Scrapped together -- Scrunge city -- Scrounging Zen -- Coda : improvisations on the everyday Summary Throughout this engaging narrative, full of a colorful cast of characters, from the mansion living suburbanites to the junk haulers themselves, Ferrell makes a persuasive argument about the dangers of over-consumption Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-216) and index Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL English Print version record digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL Subject Ragpickers -- United States Salvage (Waste, etc.) -- United States Marginality, Social -- United States SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies. Marginality, Social Ragpickers Salvage (Waste, etc.) Social conditions Abfall Großstadt Landstreicher Lumpensammler Unterprivilegierter Straatleven. Stadssociologie. SUBJECT United States -- Social conditions -- 1980-2020 Subject United States USA Form Electronic book ISBN 142941409X 9781429414098 0814727379 9780814727379 0814727387 9780814727386 0814728731 9780814728734 0814728200 9780814728208

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