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

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notes to chap ter 1 1. See, for example, JeV Ferrell, “Degradation and Rehabilitation in Popular Culture,” Journal of Popular Culture 24(3) (1990), pages 89–100; JeV Ferrell, “Dancing Backwards: Second-Hand Popular Culture and the Construction of Style,” in Jean Guiot and Joseph Green, editors, From Orchestras to Apartheid (North York, Ontario: Captus, 1990), pages 29–43. 2. See JeV Ferrell, Tearing Down the Streets: Adventures in Urban Anarchy (New York: Palgrave/St. Martin’s, 2001; Palgrave/Macmillan, 2002), chapter 3, on the politics of cars and bicycles. 3. Gary Fisher quoted in Bill Strickland, editor, The Quotable Cyclist (New York: Breakaway Books, 1997), page 35. 4. See Susan Strasser, Waste and Want: A Social History of Trash (New York: Henry Holt, 1999), for more on trash and spatial margins. See also Erving GoVman, The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1959), on the front stages and back stages of social life. 5. Donald Cressey, Other People’s Money (New York: Free Press, 1953). 6. The Worldwatch Institute, State of the World 2004 (New York: W. W. Norton, 2004), pages 4–5. 7. State of the World, page 16. 8. See, for example, Thorstein Veblen on “conspicuous leisure” and “conspicuous consumption” in The Theory of the Leisure Class (New York: New American Library, 1953 [1899]); Janet Thomas, The Battle in Seattle: The Story Behind and Beyond the WTO Demonstrations (Golden, CO: Fulcrum, 2000). 9. See Barney G. Glaser and Anselm L. Strauss, The Discovery of Grounded Theory: Strategies of Qualitative Research (Chicago: Aldine, 1967). 10. Online Etymology Dictionary (www.etymonline.com); William Morris, editor, The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language (Boston: Houghton-MiZin, 1979), page 1168. 11. Oxford English Dictionary Online (OED Online, www.oed.com and www.askoxford.com). 12. Time correspondent Frank White describing his encounter with photographer Jean Roy in Port Said, circa 1956, in Russell Miller, Magnum: Fifty Years on the Front Line of History (New York: Grove, 1997), page 133. 13. Morris, American Heritage, page 1168. 14. Strasser, Waste and Want, page 116. 15. Charles Loring Brace, The Dangerous Classes of New York, and Twenty Years Work among Them (New York: Wynkoop and Hallenbeck, 1872), pages 147, 152, 153, 154. 16. Strasser, Waste and Want, pages 73, 77, 115. 17. Stuart Henry, The Hidden Economy: The Context and Control of Borderline Crime (London: Martin Robertson, 1978), pages 4, 12. 18. www.allthingsfrugal.com. 19. Gertrude Chandler Warner, The Boxcar Children (Niles, IL: Albert Whitman and Co., 1942), inside back cover and pages 47–48. 20. Franz Lidz, Ghosty Men (New York: Bloomsbury, 2003), pages 7, 11. 21. Lars Eighner, Travels with Lizbeth (New York: Fawcett Columbine, 1993). 22. “‘Junkyard’ Junction,” Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 12 June 207 Notes 2003, page 3E; Robert Caldwallader, “Scrappers,” Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 14 June 2003, page 18B. 23. Alexis SwerdloV, “Pop Trash: French Photo-Journalists Go Dumpster Diving with the Stars in a New Exhibit,” Papermag (www.papermag.com), 2004. See also, for example, Joe Rhatigan, Salvage Style (New York: Lark Books, 2001). 24. Houston, Texas, City Councilman Mark Ellis, quoted in Rachel Graves, “City May Tell Homeless to Move Along,” Houston Chronicle, 14 May 2002, pages 1A, 10A. 25. Quoted in “Search and Seizure—Garbage Searches,” Harvard Law Review 102, no. 143 (November 1988), page 193; see pages 191–201. 26. Quoted in Dave Ferman, “Trophy Club Town Council Votes to Make Scavenging in Trash a Crime,” Fort Worth Star-Telegram (www.infoweb.newsbank.com), 20 January 2004. See relatedly Steve Jusseaume, “TrashTakers to Land in Heap of Trouble,” Hampton Union (www.seacoastonline.com), 30 July 2002. 27. “Newark Targets ‘Poachers’ of Curbside Recyclable Trash,” U.S. Water News (www.uswaternews.com), October 1995. 28. C. T. Butler and Keith McHenry, Food Not Bombs (Tucson, AZ: See Sharp Press, 2000), page 1, italics in original; see pages 29–34. See also Richard Edmondson, “The Permit Game,” SFLR News (San Francisco), 31 October 1999. 29. “Know Garage Sale Guidelines,” Fort Worth StarTelegram , 24 February 2003, page 2B. Fort Worth city code also prohibits the public posting of “lost pet” and other homemade signs. See Martha Deller, “Sign Fine Spurs Petition Plans in River Oaks,” Fort Worth StarTelegram , 11 June 2003, page 7B. 30. Of course, whatever small proWts accrue from cashing out scrap metal or selling scrounged goods are themselves subject to a most stringent form of legal regulation: IRS oversight. But like other underground economies, the empire of scrounge generally...