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From Peasant to Entrepreneur

The Survival of the Family Economy in Italy

By: Paul Corner (Editor), Anna Bull (Editor)

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Hardcover | 1 September 2010 | Edition Number 1

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The conspicuous success in Italy of a highly dynamic sector of small, rurally based manufacturing businesses has attracted a considerable amount of attention throughout both Europe and the United States in recent years. This book links this development in Italy to the processes of transformation of certain parts of the Italian countryside over the last hundred years and argues that the involvement of peasant families with both agricultural and industrial employment - a constant of the situation before the First World War - produced an entrepreneurial spirit that was subsequently reflected in the development of rural industries. This study will be of particular interest to students of contemporary Italian history, but will also be of interest to those concerned with the more general question of the transformation of agricultural societies in the face of industrialisation.

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"... this book should prove of interest not just to economists concerned with the somewhat unusual patterns of Italian economic development, but also to political scientists, historians, and sociologists." --Modern Italy

"This impressive case study is a welcome addition to the body of literature on the origins and nature of the 'Third Italy' " --Italy

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List of Tables
List of Figures
Abbreviations
Acknowledgements
Map
Introduction	p. 1
Peasant Families and Rural Labour 1815-1890	p. 15
Grain Rents, Silk, and Peasant Poverty	p. 15
Peasant Families and Rural Manufacturing	p. 23
Women's Labour and Peasant Survival	p. 27
Family Roles and Peasant Conservatism	p. 30
A Social Form, A Pattern of Behaviour	p. 32
Agrarian Crisis and the End of Equilibrium 1890-1915	p. 40
The Impact of Crisis	p. 40
From Peasant-Worker to Worker-Peasant	p. 43
Family Mentalities and Resistance to Proletarianisation	p. 47
Peasants and Protoindustrialisation	p. 53
Peasants and Entrepreneurship: The First World War and Fascism	p. 60
The War as Watershed	p. 60
Post-War Independence: Family and Freedom	p. 66
The Decline of the Silk Industry	p. 78
Peasants and Small Businesses: the Inter-War Experiment	p. 81
Small-Firm Foundation and 'Historic Breaches' with the Past	p. 87
Peasants and Entrepreneurship: From Fascism to the Present	p. 97
Social and Economic Trends	p. 97
The Marginalisation of Agriculture	p. 98
The Fascist Precedent	p. 101
Post-War Economic Development	p. 108
Como Today: Entrepreneurship and Society	p. 115
Diffused Industry and Political Culture	p. 120
Beyond Silk: Italy's Model of Diffused Industrialisation	p. 131
Small Firms as an Independent Form of Industrial Organisation	p. 131
The Italian Model. Current Debates on its Origins and Characteristics	p. 139
A Reassessment of Current Theories: The Social Variables of Small-Business Performance	p. 142
Conclusions	p. 154
Bibliography	p. 165
Index	p. 172
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