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Record Nr.

UNINA9910807629203321

Autore

Fontefrancesco Michele Filippo

Titolo

The end of the City of Gold? : industry and economic crisis in an Italian jewellery town / / by Michele Filippo Fontefrancesco

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Newcastle upon Tyne, UK : , : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, , 2013

ISBN

1-4438-5278-3

Edizione

[1.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (278 pages) : illustrations, maps

Disciplina

278

Soggetti

Precious stones

Jewelry trade - Economic aspects - Italy - Valenza

Global Financial Crisis, 2008-2009

Jewelry trade - Economic aspects - Italy

Valenza (Italy) Economic conditions 21st century

Italy Economic conditions 21st century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

part I. The "Città dell'Oro" -- part II. 'La Crisi'.

Sommario/riassunto

How does Europeas economic crisis affect the ways in which industry and entrepreneurship are experienced on a grassroots level? The book offers an answer to this question by exploring the Italian jewellery town of Valenza and the downturn of its principal industry. Through the experiences of its inhabitants, the study investigates the social role that jewellery production had in Valenza and provides an ethnographic account of the crisis the city endures. This analysis delves into the relationship between a community and its industry in order to understand the social and cultural challenges Italy and Europe will face in the future. -