Empire of Scrounge: Inside the World of Dumpster Diving

When Jeff Ferrell quit his job as a tenured professor, he began an 8 month odessy into the world of dumpster diving. In Empire of Scrounge, professor Ferrell provides a documentation of what he found, how he survived, and what he learned about America's dangerous habit of conspicuous consumption. He also details the criminalization of those who refuse to contribute to a capitalist economy and its practice of waste.