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Paris Sewers and Sewermen: Realities and Representations
by
Donald Reid
The expansion of the Paris sewer system during the Second Empire and Third Republic was both a technological and a political triumph. The sewers themselves were an important cultural phenomenon, and the men who worked in them a source of fascination. Donald Reid shows that observing how such labourers as cesspool cleaners and sewermen present themselves and are represented...more
Paperback, 248 pages
Published
March 1st 1993
by Harvard University Press
(first published March 1st 1991)
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I had to read this for a grad school paper (don't ask). It is fascinating. All about the importance of sewer workers in turn of the century Paris and the impact of a labor strike.
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