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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.
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3 editions- Paperback · English · 2014Farrar, Straus and Giroux · 304 pages · 9780374534271
- Other · English · 2013Farrar, Straus and Giroux · 280 pages · 9780374299293
- Other · English · 2013Farrar, Straus & Giroux · 9781466836730
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