Waste And Want
Subtitle: A Social History Of Trash
Publisher: Diane Pub Co
Published: February 1999
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 355
ISBN-13: 9780756774448
Subjects: Social Science; Sociology; Customs & Traditions
First sentence: At first the new scavenger is filled with disgust and self-loathing," writes Lars Eighner, describing "Dumpster diving" in his 1993 memoir of American homelessness.