Picking Up: On the Streets and Behind the Trucks with the Sanitation Workers of New York City - Paperback
by Robin Nagle
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Language:EnglishPublisher:Farrar, Straus and GirouxISBN-13:9780374534271ISBN-10:374534276UPC:9780374534271Book Category:Social Science, History, Technology & EngineeringBook Subcategory:Sociology, United States, EnvironmentalBook Topic:Urban, State & Local, Waste ManagementSize:8.20 x 5.40 x 0.90 inchesWeight:0.5997Product ID:SCQNFKFJXQ
"Meticulous . . . [Nagle's] passion for the subject really comes to life." --The New York Times
New York City produces more than twelve thousand tons of household trash and recyclables a day. As quickly as it accumulates, it's hauled away. But who makes that happen? What's life like for the workers with careers built around garbage?In Picking Up, the anthropologist Robin Nagle takes us inside...
Language:EnglishPublisher:Farrar, Straus and GirouxISBN-13:9780374534271ISBN-10:374534276UPC:9780374534271Book Category:Social Science, History, Technology & EngineeringBook Subcategory:Sociology, United States, EnvironmentalBook Topic:Urban, State & Local, Waste ManagementSize:8.20 x 5.40 x 0.90 inchesWeight:0.5997Product ID:SCQNFKFJXQ
Robin Nagle has been anthropologist-in-residence at New York City's Department of Sanitation since 2006. She is a clinical associate professor of anthropology and urban studies at New York University, where she also directs the Draper Interdisciplinary Master's Program in Humanities and Social Thought.
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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