Garbage Wars: The Struggle for Environmental Justice in Chicago

by David Naguib Pellow

Book Overview

A study of the struggle for environmental justice, focusing on conflicts over solid waste and pollution in Chicago.

In Garbage Wars, the sociologist David Pellow describes the politics of garbage in Chicago. He shows how garbage affects residents in vulnerable communities and poses health risks to those who dispose of it. He follows the trash, the pollution, the hazards, and the people who encountered them in the period 1880-2000...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 026266187X
• ISBN13: 9780262661874
• Release Date: September 2004
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 254 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.1"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher