Reclaiming the Discarded: Life and Labor on Rio's Garbage Dump

Reclaiming the Discarded: Life and Labor on Rio's Garbage Dump

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Author/Contributor(s): Millar, Kathleen M
Publisher: Duke University Press
Date: 02/13/2018
Binding: Paperback
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In Reclaiming the Discarded Kathleen Millar offers a comprehensive ethnography of Jardim Gramacho, a sprawling garbage dump on the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, where self-employed workers, known as catadores, collect recyclable materials and ultimately generate new modes of living within the precarious conditions of urban poverty.