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



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Autore: Portelli Alessandro Visualizza persona
Titolo: Biography of an Industrial Town : Terni, Italy, 1831–2014 / / by Alessandro Portelli Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2017
Edizione: 1st ed. 2017.
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (XXII, 400 p.)
Disciplina: 907.2
Soggetto topico: Oral history
Italy—History
Labor—History
Civilization—History
Europe—Politics and government
Oral History
History of Italy
Labor History
Cultural History
European Politics
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. .
Titolo autorizzato: Biography of an Industrial Town  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 3-319-50898-9
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910254760803321
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Serie: Palgrave Studies in Oral History