In Les Misérables Victor Hugo called the Paris sewers the "conscience of the city," because from them all humans look equal. In a small van full of sewer workers about to begin their shift in the ...

Gangs of sewer workers in 1920s in Paris. Image: Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris A main sewer in Paris, 1872-87. Image: Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris Main sewer at Nunhead, London, ...

One woman died and another was hospitalized in critical condition due to a nitrogen leak from a cold chamber, French ...

Names marked with an asterisk have been changed to protect identities. Paris, France – When Moussa*, an undocumented ...

Paris, France – When Moussa*, an undocumented construction worker, joined a wildcat strike at the building site of Paris’s Adidas Arena in the early hours of October 17, 2023, he was hoping ...