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Picking Up: On the Streets and Behind the Trucks with the Sanitation Workers of New York City
Picking Up On the Streets and Behind the Trucks with the Sanitation Workers of New York City
Author: Robin Nagle
New York City produces more than twelve thousand tons of household trash and recyclables a day. As quickly as it accumulates, it's hauled away. But who makes that happen? What's life like for the workers with careers built around garbage?  — In Picking Up, the anthropologist Robin Nagle takes us inside New York City'...  more »
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ISBN-13: 9780374534271
ISBN-10: 0374534276
Publication Date: 3/18/2014
Pages: 304
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Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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cwchoi avatar reviewed Picking Up: On the Streets and Behind the Trucks with the Sanitation Workers of New York City on + 3 more book reviews
Love this book, very pleasant read and it's easy enough for non-native English speaker to enjoy.
Anyone who has lived in NYC would find it especially fascinating as one knows how messed up the city can be if the trash weren't picked up in time. The book also talks about the huge storm in 2010, which many New Yorker had experienced., from the Sanitation workers' perspective.


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