001479633 000__ 05352nam\a22008775i\4500 001479633 001__ 1479633 001479633 003__ DE-B1597 001479633 005__ 20231026035103.0 001479633 006__ m\\\\\o\\d\\\\\\\\ 001479633 007__ cr\un\nnnunnun 001479633 008__ 230918t20052005nyu\\\\\o\\d\z\\\\\\eng\d 001479633 020__ $$a9780814728734 001479633 0247_ $$a10.18574/nyu/9780814728734.001.0001$$2doi 001479633 035__ $$a(DE-B1597)546987 001479633 040__ $$aDE-B1597$$beng$$cDE-B1597$$erda 001479633 0410_ $$aeng 001479633 044__ $$anyu$$cUS-NY 001479633 072_7 $$aSOC004000$$2bisacsh 001479633 08204 $$a305.5/680973 001479633 1001_ $$aFerrell, Jeff, $$eauthor.$$4aut$$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut. 001479633 24510 $$aEmpire of Scrounge :$$bInside the Urban Underground of Dumpster Diving, Trash Picking, and Street Scavenging /$$cJeff Ferrell. 001479633 264_1 $$aNew York, NY : : $$bNew York University Press, $$c[2005] 001479633 264_4 $$c©2005 001479633 300__ $$a1 online resource 001479633 336__ $$atext$$btxt$$2rdacontent 001479633 337__ $$acomputer$$bc$$2rdamedia 001479633 338__ $$aonline resource$$bcr$$2rdacarrier 001479633 347__ $$atext file$$bPDF$$2rda 001479633 4900_ $$aAlternative Criminology ; ;$$v22 001479633 50500 $$tFrontmatter -- $$tContents -- $$tAcknowledgments -- $$t1 Sordid Signs -- $$t2 Street Life -- $$t3 Street Knowledge -- $$t4 Salvage Operations -- $$t5 Scrapped Together -- $$t6 Scrunge City -- $$t7 Scrounging Zen -- $$tCoda: Improvisations on the Everyday -- $$tNotes -- $$tIndex -- $$tAbout the Author 001479633 506__ $$aAccess limited to authorized users. 001479633 520__ $$a"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 IntroductionIn December of 2001 Jeff Ferrell quit his job as tenured professor, moved back to his hometown of Fort Worth, Texas, and, with a place to live but no real income, began an eight-month odyssey of essentially living off of the street. Empire of Scrounge tells the story of this unusual journey into the often illicit worlds of scrounging, recycling, and second-hand living. Existing as a dumpster diver and trash picker, Ferrell adopted a way of life that was both field research and free-form survival. Riding around on his scrounged BMX bicycle, Ferrell investigated the million-dollar mansions, working-class neighborhoods, middle class suburbs, industrial and commercial strips, and the large downtown area, where he found countless discarded treasures, from unopened presents and new clothes to scrap metal and even food.Richly illustrated throughout, Empire of Scrounge is both a personal journey and a larger tale about the changing values of American society. Perhaps nowhere else do the fault lines of inequality get reflected so clearly than at the curbside trash can, where one person's garbage often becomes another's bounty. Throughout this engaging narrative, full of a colorful cast of characters, from the mansion living suburbanites to the junk haulers themselves, Ferrell makes a persuasive argument about the dangers of over-consumption. With landfills overflowing, today's highly disposable culture produces more trash than ever before-and yet the urge to consume seems limitless.In the end, while picking through the city's trash was often dirty and unpleasant work, unearthing other people's discards proved to be unquestionably illuminating. After all, what we throw away says more about us than what we keep. 001479633 538__ $$aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. 001479633 546__ $$aIn English. 001479633 5880_ $$aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 18. 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