Biography of an Industrial Town

Terni, Italy, 1831–2014

Alessandro Portelli (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

XXII, 400 Seiten

2017 | 1st ed. 2017
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-319-50897-9 (ISBN)

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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.

Alessandro Portelli is a former professor of Anglo-American Literature at the University of Rome La Sapienza, Italy. He is the winner of the prestigious Viareggio Prize as well as an Oral History Association book award for The Order Has Been Carried Out (Palgrave, 2003).

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. ATale of Two Cities: Death, Survival and Powerlessness in the Neo-Liberal Age.- 16. Epilogue: Working-Class Sublime.

"Biography of an Industrial Town is an ironclad book that is essential reading for everyone interested in oral history, the politics of resistance, and the privileging of the testimonies of narrators." (William Burns, The Oral History Review, Vol. 46 (2), 2019)

Erscheinungsdatum	17.10.2017
Reihe/Serie	Palgrave Studies in Oral History
Zusatzinfo	XXII, 400 p.
Verlagsort	Cham
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 210 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
Schlagworte	Cultural History • Europe • European History • European politics • Historiography • History • History of Italy • Labor history • Oral History • Politics and government • post-industrial crisis • rise of Fascism • rise of the industry and labor • Social and Cultural History • Terni, Italy • the consumer society • youth culture and violence in Italy
ISBN-10	3-319-50897-0 / 3319508970
ISBN-13	978-3-319-50897-9 / 9783319508979
Zustand	Neuware