LABOUR HISTORY

The course is among the Core Educational Activities of the Bachelor's degree course in History.
The aim of the course is the knowledge of Italian Labour History, from the Industrial Revolution to present time.

Knowledge and understanding:
- knowledge of the major features of Italian Labour History
- knowledge of the major events and processes of the historical period
- knowledge of the more relevant historical sources of Labour History
- comprehension of the interdisciplinary nature of labour issues (history, economics, sociology, anthropology)

Ability to apply knowledge and understanding:
- ability to critical analysis of Labour History sources
- ability to situate in time the labour changes
- ability to recognize the historical dimension of labour problems in present times

Communication skills:
- participating in a collective discussion with a proper terminology
- critically describing a source

General knowledge of Italian contemporary history.

Labour masks

The course sets out to provide the knowledge of Labour History in Italy from the Industrial Revolution to present time, focusing on the making of the working class and the cultures of labour. During the lessons, we will discuss types of workers belonging to different worlds (city and country; men and women; artisans, factory workers, service workers), drawing on a large range of documents, such as novels, films, inquiries and autobiographies.

1. Sources
Sul campo. L’inchiesta operaia di Marx: comprendere il mondo per cambiarlo, a cura di Riccardo Emilio Chesta, Feltrinelli, Milano 2018
Lucien Febvre, Lavoro: evoluzione di un termine e di un’idea, in Id., Lavoro e storia. Scritti e lezioni (1909-1948), a cura di Fabrizio Loreto, Donzelli, Roma 2020, pp. 103-114

2. Textbook
Stefano Musso, Storia del lavoro in Italia dall’Unità ad oggi, Marsilio, Venezia 2002

3. Insight (one book at choice)
Germano Maifreda, La disciplina del lavoro. Operai, macchine e fabbriche nella storia italiana, Bruno Mondadori, Milano 2007
Franco Ramella, Terra e telai. Sistemi di parentela e manifattura nel biellese dell’Ottocento, Einaudi, Torino 1984
Barbara Imbergamo, Mondine in campo. Dinamiche e retoriche di un lavoro del Novecento, Editpress, Firenze 2014
Roberto Bruno, Breve storia del sindacato in Italia. Lavoro, conflitto ed emancipazione, pref. Piero Bevilacqua, Ediesse, Roma 2011
Barbara Curli, Italiane al lavoro, 1914-1920, Marsilio, Venezia 1998
Alberto De Bernardi, Operai e nazione. Sindacati, operai e Stato nell’Italia fascista, Franco Angeli, Milano 1993
Luisa Passerini, Torino operaia e fascismo. Una storia orale, Laterza, Roma-Bari 1984
Alessandra Pescarolo, Il lavoro delle donne nell'Italia contemporanea, Roma, Viella, 2019
Andrea Sangiovanni, Tute blu. La parabola operaia nell’Italia repubblicana, Donzelli, Roma 2006
Eloisa Betti, Precari e precarie: una storia dell’Italia repubblicana, Carocci, Roma 2019

The exam will consist in an oral assessment.

50% lectures, 50% sources reading and discussion.

Italian

oral

This subject deals with topics related to the macro-area "Circular economy, innovation, work" and contributes to the achievement of one or more goals of U. N. Agenda for Sustainable Development