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

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

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Author / Creator:Nagle, Robin.
Edition:1st ed.
Imprint:New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2013.
Description:x, 280 p. : ill., map ; 24 cm
Language:English
Subject:
Sanitation workers -- New York (State) -- New York.
Sanitation workers.
New York (State) -- New York.
Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/9046667
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ISBN:9780374299293 (hbk.)
0374299293 (hbk.)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (p. [255]-263) and index.
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.

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