{"product_id":"trash-a-garbagemans-story","title":"Trash!","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA Montreal garbageman's sharp and funny memoir\/exposé, in which he attempts to convince people to 'stop imagining that your garbage magically disappears'.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis fascinating no-bullshit account of twenty years in waste management paints a vivid portrait of the heroic labor, anarchic spirit and violent conditions of the people who keep our cities clean.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eParé-Poupart's story is atypical: he started working as a garbageman to pay for school, and after earning graduate degrees and working in more 'respectable' fields, he is still on a truck - out of love for the physical rush, for his rough-and-tumble colleagues, and for an honesty and freedom that no other job has yet given him.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHis sociology background informs his inquiry into our collective wastefulness and individual failure to confront the trash we produce. Every abstract observation comes with hilarious and hair-raising stories from the collection route to his days off spent hunting down furniture and toys for family and friends, as a committed freegan.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eTrash!\u003c\/i\u003e - the French edition of which is a runaway bestseller in Canada - explains and questions efforts to 'clean up' a business with longstanding conventions of its own, a last bastion of well-paid employment for people who cannot fit in anywhere else.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAligned with great books about work from Zola to Orwell to Lucia Berlin, and in dialogue with societal critiques like \u003ci\u003eHow To Do Nothing, Trash!\u003c\/i\u003e will change how you think about your waste and the people who handle it.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Unity Books","offers":[{"title":"Trash! A Garbageman's Story","offer_id":46306377793733,"sku":null,"price":35.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0625\/6679\/3413\/files\/978-1-923390-40-9.jpg?v=1780528672","url":"https:\/\/unitybooks.myshopify.com\/products\/trash-a-garbagemans-story","provider":"Unity Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}