Municipal Services and Employees in the Modern City

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;