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Empire of scrounge : inside the urban underground of dumpster diving, trash picking, and street scavenging / Jeff Ferrell.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ferrell, Jeff.
- Series:
- Alternative criminology series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Ragpickers--United States.
- Ragpickers.
- Salvage (Waste, etc.)--United States.
- Salvage (Waste, etc.).
- Marginality, Social--United States.
- Marginality, Social.
- United States.
- United States--Social conditions--1980-2020.
- Social conditions.
- Physical Description:
- ix, 222 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : New York University Press, [2006]
- Summary:
- A tenured professor quits his job and begins an eight-month odyssey of scrounging, recycling, and second hand living adopting a way of life that was both field research and free form survival.
- Contents:
- Sordid signs
- Street life
- Street knowledge
- Salvage operations
- Scrapped together
- Scrunge city
- Scrounging Zen
- Coda : improvisations on the everyday.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-216) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0814727379
- 0814727387
- OCLC:
- 60671733
- Publisher Number:
- 9780814727379
- 9780814727386
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