Paris Sewers and Sewermen : Realities and Representations / Donald Reid.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Donald Reid, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sanitation workers--History--France--Paris.

Sanitation workers.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (235 pages)

Other Title:

Paris Sewers and Sewermen

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2018.

Summary:

The sewers of Paris were an important cultural phenomenon, and the men who worked in them a source of fascination. Reid shows that observing how such labourers present themselves and are represented by others is a way to reflect on the material and cultural foundations of everyday life.

Contents:

The sewers

The old regime

Sewers and social order

Engineering and empire

The visit

The irrigation fields

Montfaucon liquidated

Representations of labor

Cesspool cleaners and sewermen

Disorder above and order below

The world turned upside down

The sewermen and their union

In the public service

The body of sewermen

Sewermen today

Conclusion.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.