UID:
almafu_9960119763202883
Format:
1 online resource (xv, 312 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
ISBN:
0-511-87756-0
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0-511-52344-0
Series Statement:
Past and present publications
Content:
From the mid-1880s a shopkeeper movement developed in Milan, centred around a shopkeeper newspaper, a federation of shopkeeper trade associations, and a shopkeeper bank. In 1904 shopkeeper representatives initiated a sequence of events that led to the fall of the first radical-socialist administration within the city. The author explains these events with reference to the business of shopkeeping itself. He analyses the trades, techniques, tax structure and topography of the Milanese retail sector, and traces the history of the contest between shops and cooperatives and the shopkeeper's changing relationship with his employees and with his clientele. The final chapter confronts the crucial question of why the Milanese shopkeepers were to be found on the political right in the years leading up to the Fascist takeover. This is the first book to deal with any aspect of the Italian petite bourgeoisie.
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
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Introduction: shopkeeping as a historical problem -- 1. The business of shopkeeping in Milan, 1859-1915 -- 2. The context of shopkeeping: trades and techniques -- 3. The economic geography of shopkeeping: the role of the dazio consumo -- 4. The esercenti enter the political arena -- 5. Constructing the esercenti movement, 1886-1890 -- 6. The esercenti and the depression, 1890-1897 -- 7. Shopkeepers, cooperatives and the politics of privilege -- 8. Milan and the national small-business movement, 1886-1898 -- 9. The allargamento debate, 1895-1897 -- 10. The end-of-century crisis and the enlargement of the dazio belt -- 11. Shopkeeping in the new century -- 12. Labour relations and class politics -- 13. The esercenti and the centre-left administration, 1900-1905 -- 14. Shopkeepers and Socialists 1905-1922 -- Conclusion: identity and autonomy.
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-521-89384-4
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-521-39119-9
Language:
English
URL:
Volltext
(lizenzpflichtig)
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511523441
