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The information we have presented here represents a basic overview of the history and importance of Sanitation in New York City history. If you are looking for more information about the cultural issues of waste and waste handling or the history of the Department of Sanitation, or the history of urban waste management, consider these books and articles:
Miller, Daniel. Material Culture and Mass Consumption. Basil Blackwell, Oxford: 1987.
Ritzer, George. The McDonaldization of Society. Pine Forge Press, California: 1993.
Kennedy, Greg. An Ontology of Trash: The Disposable and its Problematic Nature. State University of New York Press, Albany: 2007.
Rathje, William and Cullen Murphy. Rubbish! The Archeology of Garbage. Harper Collins, New York: 1992.
Miller, Benjamin. Fat of the Land: Garbage in New York, the Last Two Hundred Years. Four Walls Eight Windows, New York: 2000.
Ritzer, George. Enchanting a Disenchanted World: Revolutionizing the Means of Consumption. 2nd Ed. Pine Forge Press, Thousand Oaks: 2005.
Sze, Julie. Noxious New York: The Racial Politics of Urban Health and Environmental Justice. MIT Press, Cambridge: 2007.
Schwarz, Barry. The Paradox of Choice: Why More is Less. Harper Collins, New York: 2004.
Alexander, Judd H. In Defense of Garbage. Praeger, Westport: 1993.
Hawkins, Gay. The Ethics of Waste: How We Relate to Rubbish. Rowman and Littlefield Publishers Inc., Lanham: 2006.
Cross, Gary. An All-Consuming Century: Why Commercialism Won in Modern America. Columbia University Press, New York: 2000.
Lidz, Franz. Ghosty Men : The Strange But True Story of the Collyer Brothers, New York's greatest hoarders : an urban historical. Bloomsbury, New York: 2003.
Articles:
Aart, Patricia. “Garbage in the Garden State: A Trash Museum Confronts New Jersey’s Image”. The Public Historian,Vol. 27, No. 3, pp. 57–66 (Spring 2005).
Chan, Sewell. “Sanitation Worker, 61, Dies on Job” The New York Times. 12 March, 2009.
http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/03/12/sanitation-worker-61-dies-on-job/
Elliott, Andrea and Colin Moynihan. “City Sanitation Worker Killed In a Freakish Truck Accident.” The New York Times. 27 January, 2004.
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/01/27/nyregion/city-sanitation-worker-killed-in-a-freakish-truck-accident.html