A “gripping” behind-the-scenes look at New York’s sanitation workers by an anthropologist who joined the force (Robert Sullivan, author of Rats). America�

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

"Meticulous . . . [Nagle's] passion for the subject really comes to life." —The New York Times New York City produces more than twelve thousand tons of househ

Originally published: New York: Metropolitan Books, 1999.