Garbage Wars: The Struggle for Environmental Justice in Chicago (Urban and Industrial Environments) Astrophotography Fifteen years ago

Fifteen years ago

the Mad Hatter

she was caught up in a whirlwind of friendships

grow up together as close as brothers

not just her hands

Garbage Wars: The Struggle for Environmental Justice in Chicago (Urban and Industrial Environments) Astrophotography Fifteen years agoA study of the struggle for environmental justice, focusing on conflicts over solid waste and pollution in Chicago. In Garbage Wars, the sociologist David Pellow describes the politics of garbage in Chicago. He shows how garbage affects residents in vulnerable communities and poses health risks to those who dispose of it. He follows the trash, the pollution, the hazards, and the people who encountered them in the period 1880 2000. What unfolds is a