Empire of scrounge
Subtitle: inside the urban underground of dumpster diving, trash picking, and street scavenging
By: Jeff Ferrell.
Series: Alternative criminology series
Publisher: New York University Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 222
ISBN-13: 9780814727379; 9780814727386
Subjects: Ragpickers -- United States.; Salvage (Waste, etc.) -- United States.; Marginality, Social -- United States.; United States -- Social conditions -- 1980-
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Sordid signs; title: Street life; title: Street knowledge; title: Salvage operations; title: Scrapped together; title: Scrunge city; title: Scrounging Zen; title: Coda : improvisations on the everyday.