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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Publisher : Macmillan
Total Pages : 302
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ISBN-10 : 9780374299293
ISBN-13 : 0374299293
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Download or read book Picking Up: On the Streets and Behind the Trucks with the Sanitation Workers of New York City written by Robin Nagle and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2013-03-19 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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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