Empire of Scrounge (edit title/settings)

Inside the Urban Underground of Dumpster Diving, Trash Picking, and Street Scavenging

by Jeff Ferrell (Author) (edit contributors)

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"Patrolling the neighborhoods of central Fort Worth, sorting through trash piles, exploring dumpsters, scanning the streets and the gutters for items lost or discarded, I gathered the city's degraded bounty, then returned home to sort and catalogue the take." —From the Introduction In... read more

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Books › Nonfiction › Social Sciences › Anthropology › Cultural
Books › Nonfiction › Current Events › Poverty
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