Municipal Services and Employees in the Modern City: New Historic Approaches

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.

Michele Dagenais is Associate Professor of Political and Urban History at the Universite de Montreal, Canada Irene Maver is Lecturer in Scottish History at the University of Glasgow, United Kingdom. Pierre-Yves Saunier is Researcher in History at the Centre Nationale de la Recherche Scientifique in Lyon, France Emmanuel Bellanger is completing a history thesis at the Universite Paris 8, France Michele Dagenais is an associate professor in the history department at the Universite de Montreal Filippo De Pieri holds a research appointment at the Department of Architectural Design, Politecnico di Torino, Turin, Italy Roberto Ferretti is a temporary researcher for the Dipartimento di discipline storiche, Universita di Bologna, Italy Amy S. Greenberg is associate professor of history at Pennsylvania State University Irene Maver is a lecturer in Scottish history at the University of Glasgow Cristina Mehrtens is currently teaching at the School of Continuing Studies and is working on an oral history project about Cuba in the 1950s at the Center for Latin American Studies, University of Miami Jean-Yves Nevers is a political sociologist at the Centre National de La Recherche Scientifique at the University of Toulouse, France Pierre-Yves Saunier is a researcher in history at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, in Lyon, France Benedicte Zimmermann is maitre de conferences at the Ecole des hautes etudes en sciences sociales, in Paris