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Empire of scrounge : inside the urban underground of dumpster diving, trash picking, and street scavenging / Jeff Ferrell.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ferrell, Jeff.
- Series:
- Alternative criminology 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--Social conditions--1980-.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (233 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : New York University Press, c2006.
- Summary:
- "Patrolling the neighborhoods of central Fort Worth, sorting through trash piles, exploring dumpsters, scanning the streets and the gutters for items lost or discarded, I gathered the city's degraded bounty, then returned home to sort and catalogue the take.". -From the Introduction. In December of 2001 Jeff Ferrell quit his job as tenured professor, moved back to his hometown of Fort Worth, Texas, and, with a place to live but no real income, began an eight-month odyssey of essentially living off of the street. Empire of Scrounge tells the story of this unusual journey into the often illicit
- Contents:
- Sordid signs
- Street life
- Street knowledge
- Salvage operations
- Scrapped together
- Scrunge city
- Scrounging Zen
- Coda : improvisations on the everyday.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 207-216) and index.
- OCLC:
- 780425888
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