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Record Nr.

UNINA9910254760803321

Autore

Portelli Alessandro

Titolo

Biography of an Industrial Town [[electronic resource] ] : Terni, Italy, 1831–2014 / / by Alessandro Portelli

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2017

ISBN

3-319-50898-9

Edizione

[1st ed. 2017.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (XXII, 400 p.)

Collana

Palgrave Studies in Oral History

Disciplina

907.2

Soggetti

Oral history

Italy—History

Labor—History

Civilization—History

Europe—Politics and government

Oral History

History of Italy

Labor History

Cultural History

European Politics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Part I -- 1. Introduction: Speaking, Writing and Remembering -- 2. The Red and the Black: Rebels, Patriots and Outlaws -- 3. How Green Was My Valley: Feudal Landlords and Struggling Peasants -- 4. How Steel Was Forged: The Making of a Working Class -- 5. Rebels: Socialists, Anarchists and the Subversive Tradition -- 6. The Iron Heel, or, We Didn't Have Any Trouble: The Coming of Fascism -- 7. Let Us Now Praise Famous Men: Surviving and Resisting Fascism -- 8. Apocalypse Now: War, Hunger and Mass Destruction -- 9. Red Is the Color: The Gramsci Brigade -- 10. The Best of Times, The Worst of Times: Economic Boom and Industrial Crisis -- 11. Staying Alive: The Rise of Alternative Cultures -- Part II: Specialty Steel -- 12. David and Goliath: The Town, the Factory and the Strike -- 13. The Workers and the World: Terni Steel in the Age of Globalization -- 14. The Empire Strikes



Back: The Town, the Factory and the Strike: Reprise -- 15. A Tale of Two Cities: Death, Survival and Powerlessness in the Neo-Liberal Age -- 16. Epilogue: Working-Class Sublime.

Sommario/riassunto

A pioneering work in oral history, this book tells the story of the rise and fall of the industrial revolution and the apogee and crisis of the labor movement through an oral history of Terni, a steel town in Central Italy and the seat of the first large industrial enterprise in Italy. This story is told through a combination of stories, songs, myths and memories from over 200 voices of five generations, woven with a wealth of archival material. .