When:
Monday, May 08, 2023 6:00p -
7:00p

Where:
Massachusetts Historical Society
1154 Boyleston St
Boston, MA 02215

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Admission:
$10

Hosted by:
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jbelknap1791 Massachusetts Historical Society

Categories:
History, Lectures & Conferences, Social Good, Virtual

Event website:
https://www.masshist.org/events/politics-trash-how-governments-used-corruption-clean-cities-1890-1929

This is a hybrid event. FREE for MHS Members. $10 per person fee (in person). No charge for virtual attendees or Card to Culture participants (EBT, WIC, and ConnectorCare). The in-person reception starts at 5:30 and the program will begin at 6:00.

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The Politics of Trash explains how municipal trash collection solved odorous urban problems using nongovernmental and often unseemly means. Patricia Strach and Kathleen S. Sullivan tell a story of dirty politics and administrative innovation that made rapidly expanding American cities livable. When the efforts of sanitarians, engineers, and reformers failed, public officials turned to the tools of corruption as well as to gender and racial hierarchies. Effective waste collection involves translating municipal imperatives into new habits in homes and 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.

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