Author: Pittsburgh (Pa.).
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Languages : en
Pages : 1168

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Author: New York Public Library
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Category : Charters
Languages : en
Pages : 402

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Author: Pennsylvania
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Category : Ordinances, Municipal
Languages : en
Pages : 1178

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Author: William Bennett Munro
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Category : Municipal government
Languages : en
Pages : 554

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Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 1028

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Containing reports from Pennsylvania judicial districts and other leading decisions.

Author: Patricia Strach
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 1501766996
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 247

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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.

Author: New York Public Library
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Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 1092

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Includes its Report, 1896-19 .

Author: Pennsylvania State Library
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Category : Pennsylvania
Languages : en
Pages : 48

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Includes catalogs of accessions and special bibliographical supplements.

Author: Joseph F Rishel
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Pre
ISBN: 0822972786
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 255

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As Pittsburgh and its surrounding area grew into an important commercial and industrial center, a group of families emerged who were distinguished by their wealth and social position. Joseph Rishel studies twenty of these families to determine the degree to which they formed a coherent upper class and the extent to which they were able to maintain their status over time. His analysis shows that Pittsburgh's elite upper class succeeded in creating the institutions needed to sustain a local aristocracy and possessed the ability to adapt its accumulated advantages to social and economic changes.

Author: Chicago (Ill.). Municipal Reference Library
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Category : Chicago (Ill.)
Languages : en
Pages : 166

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