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While the figure of the scavenger sifting through Garbage seems iconic of wageless Life today, Millar shows how the work of Reclaiming recyclables is more than a survival strategy or an informal Labor practice.
Millar offers an evocative ethnography of Jardim Gramacho, a sprawling Garbage Dump on the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro, where roughly two thousand self-employed workers known as catadores collect recyclable materials.
In Reclaiming the Discarded Kathleen M