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Garbage : The Saga of a Boss Scavenger in San Francisco /
"Garbage is a memoir of an exceptional trash collector from the streets and wharves of San Francisco. This is a rollicking first-person narrative that recounts an incredible life led and has amazing nuggets of wisdom scattered throughout its pages. Stefanelli was trained to be a scavenger by hi...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Reno & Las Vegas :
University of Nevada Press,
[2018]
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction: A Historical Summary of Garbage; 1. A Personal History; 2. The Birth of Sunset Scavenger Company; 3. Sunset Scavenger during the 1940s and 1950s; 4. Disposal of San Francisco Waste, 1906-1966; 5. How I Became a Scavenger; 6. Work, Courtship, and Marriage; 7. The Art of Scavenging and Recycling; 8. The Board of Directors and How It Governed; 9. The Revolution; 10. My Role as the New President; 11. Dirty Work, Pride in Ownership; 12. A Visit to Where the Boss Scavengers Were Born.
- 13. Sunset Scavenger, Catching Up in Time14. The Development of the Sierra Point Landfill; 15. Immediate Challenges: The Mountain View Project; 16. Beyond Mountain View; 17. Growing the Business; 18. The Creation of Envirocal, the Holding Company; 19. Addressing the 1968 Civil Rights Act; 20. Seeking the Proverbial Black Box for Waste Disposal; 21. A Good Proposal-Not Implemented in San Francisco; 22. A Conceptual Solution for the State of California; 23. The Winds of Change; 24. A Radical Change and a New CFO; 25. A Significant Event that Changed My Plans; 26. The Final Stab in the Back.
- 27. My World without Sunset ScavengerAbout the Author; Illustrations.