Empire of scrounge : inside the urban underground of dumpster diving, trash picking, and street scavenging / / Jeff Ferrell
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Ferrell Jeff
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| Titolo: |
Empire of scrounge : inside the urban underground of dumpster diving, trash picking, and street scavenging / / Jeff Ferrell
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| Pubblicazione: | New York, : New York University Press, c2006 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (233 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 305.5/68/0973 |
| Soggetto topico: | Ragpickers - United States |
| Salvage (Waste, etc.) - United States | |
| Marginality, Social - United States | |
| Soggetto geografico: | United States Social conditions 1980- |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 207-216) and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Sordid signs -- Street life -- Street knowledge -- Salvage operations -- Scrapped together -- Scrunge city -- Scrounging Zen -- Coda : improvisations on the everyday. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | "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 |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Empire of Scrounge |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910809735803321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Serie:
Alternative criminology series.