Picking Up: On the Streets and Behind the Trucks with the Sanitation Workers of New York City

by Robin Nagle

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"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 New...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0374534276

ISBN13:9780374534271

Release Date:March 2014

Publisher:Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Length:304 Pages

Weight:0.64 lbs.

Dimensions:0.9" x 5.4" x 8.2"

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