An unprecedented look at that most commonplace act of everyday life-throwing things out-and how it has transformed American society.
Before the twentieth century, streets and bodies stank, but Trash was nearly.
Here she turns to an essential but neglected part of that culture-the Trash it produces-and finds in it an unexpected wealth of meaning.
Susan Strasser\'s pathbreaking histories of housework and the rise of the mass market have become classics in the literature of consumer culture.
An unprecedented look at that most commonplace act of everyday life-throwing things out-and how it has transformed American society