...Stephanie Tam The development of Ahmedabad's sewerage system both impinged upon and was itself modified to accommodate India's caste structure. Sewers became markers of legitimacy, sophistication, and moral citizenship through the notion of the “civic sense,” having corporeal, political...

... later, in 1970, the Oregon Journal was telling “The Columbia Slough Story: ‘Open Sewer’ Poses Stinking Hazard.” In 1993, headlines in the Portland Oregonian proclaimed, “Health Officials Report Finding PCBs in Fish,” and “Slough Work Overdue.” “City to Spend $6.3 Million to Clean Up Slough...

..., and Paris Sewers and Sewermen. Jennifer Scanlon is associate professor and Director of Women’s Studies at the SUNY Plattsburgh. She is the author of 244 NOTES ON CONT.RIBUTORS/245 Inarticulate Longings: The Ladies’ Home Journal...

... of Africans and rural retirement in South Africa. Donald Reid is professor of history at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Author of The Miners of Decazeville: A Genealogy of Deindustrialization and Paris Sewers and Sewermen: Realities...

..., however, burdened by nearly five hundred years of colo­ nial and neocolonial control, woeful underdevelopment, and its landlocked geogra­ phy, has had difficulty providing that human right to its poor citizens. Today only 46 percent of Bolivians have access to sewer systems, while 15 percent lack...

..., the survey provides a surprising amount of information on textile work- ers, iron and steel workers, glass-makers, the makers of grindstones and files, rubber workers, sewer workers and underwater workers. Those who are enamored of French bread and pastry will, perhaps, be surprised at the human cost...

... to run there for dinner, especially corn beef and cabbage!" - (Former sewer , Sayles Finishing Plant) Noontime baseball played by the women employees ''It was every Saturday afternoon they used to have the ball games. They'd all come out...

... , 2015 . http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2015/6/3/filthy-water-and-poor-sewers-plague-poor-black-belt-counties.html . Cook Wedgworth Jessica , and Brown Joe . “ Limited Access to Safe Drinking Water and Sanitation in Alabama’s Black Belt: A Cross-Sectional Case Study .” Water...

... world. For example, when asked about the reasons for the continual need for sewer repairs in the medina of Fez, one self-avowed Fassi declared: “Hicks shit a lot” [al- ’arûbîyîn taykhrau bizeff], alluding to the rural population in the medina. He did...

... in- formed us that: Eleven thousand people of Japanese Ancestry from the three West-Coast States were loosely confined by the United States government in the center for about three years.. . .The camp was equipped with modem waterworks and sewer system and a modern hospital...

... of the Parisian sex trade was published in 1836, the regulated brothel operated as a “seminal drain,” carrying away men’s excess sexual energy much like the city’s sewer system disposed of waste. 4 In the nineteenth century, hydraulic metaphors for men’s desire—whether sewers, rushing rivers, or liquid...

... the railroads, dams, subways and sewers and who sweated in the nation’s mines, mills and docks, were also exclusive- ly male; but, unlike the craftsmen, most of them were immigrants and blacks, deeply marked by their rural origins in Asia, southern or eastern Europe, Mexico or, in the case of Afro...

... traveled eight or nine blocks in forty-five minutes. At first it felt adventurous to be out in such weather. My son was elated for he was clearly going to arrive very late for school. Soon, however, the sewers overflowed and water flooded the street. Within ten minutes the water had risen...

... and political elements that enabled the reconstruction of Second Empire Paris. The new Paris was not just a city of parades but also one of social utility extending to roads, parks, sewers, and water supply.5 In Carl Schorske’s Fin- de-Siècle Vienna the tension between the competing urban visions...

... Brunswick, then labor organizing. I worked for District 65 for a couple of years organizing small shops of bus drivers, sewer plant workers, chemical factory workers, and others. That was an intense experience, and I learned a lot from pros like Bob Mihalko...

... the Depression. Apart from the failure of an ambitious agricultural school, the infra- structure projects that have impressed other writers are largely passed over. As the roads, bridges, sewers, clinics, and hospitals were not American largesse but paid for from tax revenue, one ought to ask why...

... by the "vomit of the sewers." The Chicago Times went so far in its alarm as to counsel the use of hand grenades against strikers.13 The polarized tone of public discourse reflects the extension of the area of class conflict. Battles joined at the workplace tended to spill over into politics...

... disaster.41 Religion and technical prowess were often merged: the Cloaca Maxima, the great sewer of Rome, was originally con- structed to drain the fens and remove effluent from the city center. Presided over by Cloacina, goddess of the sewer, the drainage provided by the system was both...

..., the areas most affected by cholera were those along the coast, where most of the fishers and the other social groups dependent on the sea for their livelihood were concentrated, and where urban infrastructure, especially sewers and fresh drinking water, were scarce or nonexistent. The high...

... Workers against Work,” 3 . 19. Stanley, Atmospheres of Violence , 12 . 20. Chateauvert, Sex Workers Unite , 156 . 21. Spencer, Revolution Has Come , 2 . 22. Washburn, Underworld Sewer , 228–29 . 23. Clandestine Whores Network, “Beneath Everything.” 24...