Title: Picking up
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.
Subjects: Sanitation workers, Employees, Labor, united states, New York Times reviewed, Urban, Middle Atlantic, Nonfiction, History, Sociology, New york (n.y.), social conditions, Sanitation
Places: New York (State), New York