Municipal Services and Employees in the Modern City

Michèle Dagenais, Irene Maver, Pierre-Yves Saunier

Municipal Services and Employees in the Modern City considers the roles played by local institutions and particular processes that shaped the urban fabric. It rediscovers from models and maps the constituent dynamics of cities since the beginning of the nineteenth century, and demonstrates how patterns evolved in the way services and locations were organized; how urban transformation was underpinned by structural development, and how the municipal workforce became an integral part of the agencies of change. Municipal Services and Employees in the Modern City suggests that municipal experiences are central to the development of urban studies. Its focus of analysis ranges across Europe and the Americas from high-ranking bureaucrats to firefighters, engineers to accountants, and town clerks to public servants.

General Editors Preface; Chapter 1 Tales of The Periphery: An Outline Survey of Municipal Employees and Services in The Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Michèle Dagenais, Pierre-Yves Saunier; Chapter 2 Nineteenth-Century Municipal Engineers in Turin: Technical Bureaucracies in The Networks of Local Power, Filippo De Pieri; Chapter 3 The Origins of The American Municipal Fire DePart ment: Nineteenth-Century Change from an International Perspective, Amy S. Greenberg; Chapter 4 The Formation of a Bureaucratic Group Between Centre and Periphery: Engineers and Local Government in Italy from The Liberal Period to Fascism (1861-1939), Roberto Ferretti; Chapter 5 Municipal Innovations Versus National Wait-And-See Attitudes: Unemployment Policies in Kaiserreich Germany (1871-1918), Bénédicte Zimmermann; Chapter 6 Town clerks in the Paris region: the design of a professional identity in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Emmanuel Bellanger; Chapter 7 A model for the emerging welfare state? Municipal management in Montreal during the 1930s, Michèle Dagenais; Chapter 8 Municipal employees and the construction of social identity in São Paulo, Brazil, in the 1930s, Cristina Mehrtens; Chapter 9 The 'iron triangle' of municipal government: trade unions, bureaucracy and political Part ies in a French town (Toulouse, 1910-1970), Jean-Yves Nevers; Chapter 10 A (North) British end-view: the comparative experience of municipal employees and services in Glasgow (1800-1950), Irene Maver;