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The Politics of Trash - How Governments Used Corruption to Clean Cities, 1890-1929 (Hardcover)
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The Politics of Trash - How Governments Used Corruption to Clean Cities, 1890-1929 (Hardcover)
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The Politics of Trash explains how municipal trash collection
solved odorous urban problems using nongovernmental and often
unseemly means. Focusing on the persistent problems of filth and
the frustration of generations of reformers unable to clean their
cities, Patricia Strach and Kathleen S. Sullivan tell a story of
dirty politics and administrative innovation that made rapidly
expanding American cities livable. The solutions that professionals
recommended to rid cities of overflowing waste cans, litter-filled
privies, and animal carcasses were largely ignored by city
governments. When the efforts of sanitarians, engineers, and
reformers failed, public officials turned to the habits and tools
of corruption as well as to gender and racial hierarchies.
Corruption often provided the political will for public officials
to establish garbage collection programs. Effective waste
collection involves translating municipal imperatives into new
habits and arrangements in homes and other private spaces. To
change domestic habits, officials relied on gender hierarchy to
make the women of the white, middle-class households in charge of
sanitation. When public and private trash cans overflowed, racial
and ethnic prejudices were harnessed to single out scavengers,
garbage collectors, and neighborhoods by race. These early informal
efforts were slowly incorporated into formal administrative
processes that created the public-private sanitation systems that
prevail in most American cities today. The Politics of Trash
locates these hidden resources of governments to challenge
presumptions about the formal mechanisms of governing and recovers
the presence of residents at the margins, whose experiences can be
as overlooked as garbage collection itself. This consideration of
municipal garbage collection reveals how political development
often relies on undemocratic means with long-term implications for
further inequality. Focusing on the resources that cleaned American
cities also shows the tenuous connection between political
development and modernization. -- Cornell University Press
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