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Divergent Responses to Identical Problems: Businessmen and the Smoke Nuisance in Germany and the United States, 1880–1917

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 March 2017

Frank Uekoetter
Frank Uekoetter
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FRANK UEKOETTER is currently completing a Ph.D. dissertation atthe University of Bielefeld entitled“Air Pollution Control in Germany and the United States of America, 1880–1970.”
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Abstract

This article counters a common misconception that business was universally opposed to air pollution control at the beginning of the twentieth century. In comparing the reaction of German and American businessmen to smoke abatement efforts before World War I, it shows that behavior was primarily shaped by national culture, rather than by a general desire to “externalize costs.” German smoke abatement did not meet significant resistance from industrialists, with regulation being based on a general consensus of all parties involved—a process which turned out to be as much a chance for abatement as it was an impediment for reforms. The American business community was split into two factions: those opposed to smoke abatement because they feared additional costs and the intrusion of factories by officials, and others, frequently organized in Chambers of Commerce or similar civic associations, who took a broader perspective and argued that the economic prospects of their city were at stake. The ultimate success of the latter group was largely due to changes in strategy, which allowed businessmen to develop a more positive attitude toward smoke abatement while simultaneously increasing the effectiveness of regulation. Business, therefore, should not be viewed as an inevitably “negative force” in environmental regulation.

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Business History Review , Volume 73 , Special Issue 4: Business and the Environment , Winter 1999 , pp. 641 - 676
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Copyright © The President and Fellows of Harvard College 1999

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61 It is difficult to explain why real estate interests were completely disinterested in smoke abatement in Germany. However, it appears that smoke did not threaten the value of German real estate to the same degree. While it repeatedly occurred that urban areas changed its character dramatically within a brief period of time, the German real estate market was significantly more stable, making smoke less of a factor in influencing property values.

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73 Quoted after A Reply to the Civic League Report on the Smoke Nuisance. Issued by the Smoke Abatement Department of the City of St. Louis (Dec. 1906), 2.

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90 Grinder, “Battle,” 96; Stradling, Civilized Air, 221, 227; Platt, “Invisible gases,” 85. However, Joel Tarr, working on post-World War One smoke abatement efforts, has proposed a different perspective. (See Joel A. Tarr, The Search for the Ultimate Sink: Urban Pollution in Historical Perspective [Akron, 1996], 227–261, and Joel A. Tarr, Carl Zimring, “The Struggle for Smoke Control in St. Louis. Achievement and Emulation,” Hurley, Andrew, ed., Common Fields: An Environmental History of St. Louis [St. Louis, 1997], 199–220.Google Scholar)

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93 Report of the Department of Health, City of Chicago (1881–1882): 35; (1883–1884): 136; (1885): 102; (1886): 81; (1887): 99; (1888): 20; (1889): 117; (1890): 128; (1891): 58; (1892): 50; Paul P. Bird, Report, 57. Therefore, Stradling is wrong to assume that “engineers appointed to head smoke departments often abandoned the prosecutory paths taken by previous inspectors.” (Stradling, Civilized Air, 216–217.)

94 Chicago Record-Herald, 24 Apr. 1908, 3; 31 Jul. 1908, 7. Interestingly, Platt abstains from any discussion of the performance of the Department of Smoke Inspection, instead vaguely blaming them for “the triumph of a socially constructed vision of technological progress.” Grinder offers a number of quotations to substantiate his argument of ineffectiveness, but a review of these statements shows that all of them were made before smoke inspection started in the respective cities. (Platt, “Invisible gases,” 91; Grinder, “Battle,” 98–99.) The most conspicuous example is the way Grinder quotes an editorial from the St. Louis Republic. In order to suggest that the newspaper was criticizing the educational approach, he writes, “Does anyone doubt that … (smoke inspection by moral suasion) has been a failure?” However, the full quotation reads, “Does anybody [sic] doubt that the policy of threatening complaints, securing occasional convictions and recommending frequent remissions of fines on promises to do better, has been a failure?” In other words, the editorial criticized prosecution and the way it was handled in St. Louis, and not, as Grinder suggests, education. (See Grinder, “Battle,” 98 and St. Louis Republic, 9 Feb. 1911, 6.)

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