Empire of scrounge inside the urban underground of dumpster diving, trash picking, and street scavenging - Ferrell, Jeff.; ebrary, Inc. (New York : New York University Press, 2006)
Sordid signs -- Street life -- Street knowledge -- Salvage operations -- Scrapped together -- Scrunge city -- Scrounging Zen -- Coda : improvisations on the everyday.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 207-216) and index.
Electronic reproduction.
Keywords: Ragpickers -- United States; Salvage (Waste, etc.) -- United States; Marginality, Social -- United States; United States -- Social conditions -- 1980-; Electronic books