Picking up
Subtitle: on the streets and behind the trucks with the sanitation workers of New York City
By: Robin Nagle
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: 2013
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 280
ISBN-13: 9780374299293
Subjects: Sanitation workers
Description: Charting New York's four-hundred-year struggle with trash, an anthropologist who spent ten years with sanitation workers of all ranks reveals what it takes for the Department of Sanitation to manage Gotham's garbage.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.