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Waste and Want: A Social History of Trash

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An unprecedented look at that most commonplace act of everyday life—throwing things out—and how it has transformed American society.

"Strasser reads our American history in our tea leaves—and countless tons of other domestic garbage—as she traces the changing meanings of waste and thrift from Colonial times to the present." —The Boston Globe

Winner of the Abel Wolman Award of the Public Works Historical Society


Susan Strasser's pathbreaking histories of housework and the rise of the mass m...