Empire of Scrounge [[electronic resource] ] : Inside the Urban Underground of Dumpster Diving, Trash Picking, and Street Scavenging
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| Autore: |
Ferrell Jeff
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| Titolo: |
Empire of Scrounge [[electronic resource] ] : Inside the Urban Underground of Dumpster Diving, Trash Picking, and Street Scavenging
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| Pubblicazione: | New York, : NYU Press, 2005 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (233 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 305.5/68/0973 |
| 305.5680973 | |
| Soggetto topico: | Marginality, Social -- United States |
| Ragpickers -- United States | |
| Salvage (Waste, etc.) -- United States | |
| United States -- Social conditions -- 1980- | |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Contents; Acknowledgments; 1 Sordid Signs; 2 Street Life; 3 Street Knowledge; 4 Salvage Operations; 5 Scrapped Together; 6 Scrunge City; 7 Scrounging Zen; Coda: Improvisations on the Everyday; Notes; Index; About the Author |
| 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.: | 9910782072303321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Serie:
Alternative Criminology Series