Professors Patricia Strach and Kathleen Sullivan are better known in political science circles as \"The Garbage Girls.\" They have been researching the history and politics of trash collection for nearly a decade, which culminates in a most important book called The Politics of Trash. They join me to talk about why your waste matters.
Essential Reading:
Recommended Reading:
Joel A. Tarr, Search for the Ultimate Sink: Urban Pollution in Historical Perspective (1996).
Martin V. Melosi, Garbage in the Cities: Refuse, Reform, and the Environment (2004).
Stanley K. Schultz and Clay McShane, βTo Engineer the Metropolis: Sewers, Sanitation, and City Planning in Late-Nineteenth America,β The Journal of American History 65, no. 2 (September 1978): 389-411
Carl A. Zimring, Clean and White: A History of Environmental Racism in the United States (2016).
Kimberley S. Johnson, Reforming Jim Crow: Southern Politics and State in the Age before Brown (2010).
Carol Nackenoff and Julie Novkov, eds., Statebuilding from the Margins: Between Reconstruction and the New Deal (2014).
Jessica Trounstine, Segregation by Design: Local Politics and Inequality in American Cities (2018).
Lily Baum Pollans, Resisting Garbage: The Politics of Waste Management in American Cities (2021).