Waste and Want

Author: Susan Strasser
Edition: First Edition, "History" label on Jacket
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 0805048308

Waste and Want: A Social History of Trash

An unprecedented look at that most commonplace act of everyday life-throwing things out-and how it has transformed American society. Download Waste and Want: A Social History of Trash from rapidshare, mediafire, 4shared. Susan Strasser's pathbreaking histories of housework and the rise of the mass market have become classics in the literature of consumer culture. Here she turns to an essential but neglected part of that culture-the trash it produces-and finds in it an unexpected wealth of meaning. Before the twentieth century, streets and bodies stank, but trash was nearly nonexistent. With goods and money scarce, almost everything was reused. Strasser paints a vivid picture of an America where scavenger pigs roamed the streets, swill children collected kitchen garbage, and itinerant peddlers traded manufactured goods for ra Search and find a lot of engineering books in many category availabe for free download.

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