The Politics of Trash: How Governments Used Corruption to Clean Cities, 1890–1929
Patricia Strach, "The Politics of Trash: How Governments Used Corruption to Clean Cities, 1890–1929"
English | ISBN: 1501766988 | 2023 | 246 pages | PDF | 3 MB
English | ISBN: 1501766988 | 2023 | 246 pages | PDF | 3 MB
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.
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