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From peasant misery to entrepreneurial wealth. The making of a regional capitalism.

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	From peasant misery to entrepreneurial wealth. The making of a regional capitalism./
Author:	Ghezzi, Simone.
Description:	288 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 63-06, Section: A, page: 2290.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International63-06A.
Subject:	Anthropology, Cultural. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=NQ69028
ISBN:	9780612690288

From peasant misery to entrepreneurial wealth. The making of a regional capitalism.
Ghezzi, Simone.

From peasant misery to entrepreneurial wealth. The making of a regional capitalism. - 288 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 63-06, Section: A, page: 2290.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Toronto (Canada), 2002.

This work explores from an ethnographic and historical perspective the origin and the development of small-scale industrialization and flexible specialization in a specific regional context, the Brianza, an area situated in Lombardy, Northern Italy. Particular concern is given to the analysis of the formation of material and ideological conditions underlying this regional economy. The first part of the thesis illustrates the social and demographic consequences of the long coexistence of peasant and industrial economies in the region. Sharecropping, and industrial work are analyzed in detail to show how their articulation produced the conditions of family subsistence through the access to multiple resources, as well as conditions of class exploitation by landowners and textile industrialists. Agricultural crises and continuing exploitation brought about social unrest resulting in changes in land tenure arrangements and consequently family structure. The second part explores the formation process of the culture of work and entrepreneurship that historically arose out of material and ideological factors in the region. I dwell on the formation of the local Catholic co-operative system which emerged out of the social strife between landlords and peasants at the turn of the Twentieth century. Economic and political emancipation of households from landlords was achieved through land ownership and increasing participation in wage labour. Catholic agencies continued to perpetuate patriarchal relations of authority within the family in the attempt to combat the menace of class-oriented socialist values. Land fragmentation and chronic agricultural crises pushed an increasing number of households into artisanry and industry, resulting in the growth of metalworking and woodworking sectors. The primacy of male skilled labour, and the reproduction of familistic relations of patriarchal authority are some of the material and ideological preconditions discussed that caused post-war family entrepreneurship and flexible forms of industrial production. The final section illustrates such development by paying particular attention to small-factory subcontracting networks and the institutions that support them in this regime of flexible specialization. It also focuses on the social relations of production within family-based artisan workshops, where patriarchal relations of authority underlie the organization of production, and the resulting forms of exploitation.

ISBN: 9780612690288Subjects--Topical Terms:

735016
Anthropology, Cultural.

From peasant misery to entrepreneurial wealth. The making of a regional capitalism.
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