num_pages: 222
description: Throughout This Engaging Narrative, Full Of A Colorful Cast Of Characters, From The Mansion Living Suburbanites To The Junk Haulers Themselves, Ferrell Makes A Persuasive Argument About The Dangers Of Over-consumption. Sordid Signs -- Street Life -- Street Knowledge -- Salvage Operations -- Scrapped Together -- Scrunge City -- Scrounging Zen -- Coda : Improvisations On The Everyday. Jeff Ferrell. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 207-216) And Index.
language: en
title: Empire of Scrounge: Inside the Urban Underground of Dumpster Diving, Trash Picking, and Street Scavenging (Alternative Criminology)
publisher: NYU Press