I: Creating industrial ecologies
Introduction : the industrial city and the paradox of progress
"They are all little Manchesters"
"A fountain inexhaustible" : Chicago and environmental profligacy
"The hardest worked river" : Manchester and environmental catastrophe
The technological construction of industrial ecologies
The social construction of industrial technology
II: Reforming industrial cities
Introduction : public health and the politics of environmental reform
The environmental justice movement in Manchester
The environmental justice movement in Chicago
"Monstrous waste" : water supply in Chicago and Manchester
"Clever microbes" : sanitation science in Manchester and Chicago
"Invisible evil" : pollution and class politics in Manchester
Visible smoke : pollution and gender politics in Chicago
Conclusion : machine age cities.
