Displaying 1 of 1 2013 Format: Book Author: Nagle, Robin. Title: Picking up : on the streets and behind the trucks with the sanitation workers of New York City / Robin Nagle. Edition: 1st ed. Publisher, Date: New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2013. Description: x, 280 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map Summary: 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 -- New York (State) -- New York. Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-263) and index. Contents: Garbage faeries -- In the field -- On the board -- Body and soul -- Mongo and manipulation -- Being uniform -- Tubbs of nastiness -- A matter of spoils -- Apostles of cleanliness -- An angry sea -- You are a san man -- Road worthy -- Bumper cars -- Getting it up -- Lost in the Bronx -- We eat our own -- Night plow -- Snowed under -- Benevolence. LCCN: 2012028941 ISBN: 9780374299293 0374299293 9780374534271 0374534276 Other Number: 795174388 System Availability: 1 Current Holds: 0 # Local items: 1 Control Number: 353771 # Local items in: 1 # System items in: 1 Call Number: 628.44 Nagle Place Hold Add to My List Expand All | Collapse All Availability Map It Suggestions and more Displaying 1 of 1
