Picking up : on the streets and behind the trucks with the sanitation workers of New York City / Robin Nagle.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Nagle, Robin.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sanitation workers--New York (State)--New York.

Sanitation workers.

New York (State)--New York.

Physical Description:

x, 280 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2013.

Summary:

Charting New York's four-hundred-year struggle with trash, an anthropologist who spent ten years with sanitation workers of all ranks reveals what it takes for the Department of Sanitation to manage Gotham's garbage.

Contents:

Part 1 Collection

1 Garbage Faeries 11

2 In the Field 28

3 On the Board 41

Part 2 In Title

4 Body and Soul 53

5 Mongo and Manipulation 64

6 Being Uniform 74

Part 3 Species of Reform

7 Tubbs of Nastiness 87

8 A Matter of Spoils 97

9 Apostles of Cleanliness 105

10 An Angry Sea 112

Part 4 Sending It Up

11 You Are a San Man 125

12 Road Worthy 135

13 Bumper Cars 143

14 Getting It Up 157

Part 5 Loaded Out

15 Lost in the Bronx 165

16 We Eat Our Own 172

17 Night Plow 187

18 Snowed Under 200

19 Benevolence 210.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [255]-263) and index.

ISBN:

9780374299293

0374299293

OCLC:

795174388