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.
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- English
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Table of contents
- Foreword
- Contents
- Abbreviations
- The Narrators
- Biography of a Town
- 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 Tempered: 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 and the Resistance
- 10 The Best of Times, the Worst of Times: Economic Boom and Industrial Crisis
- 11 Staying Alive: The Rise of Alternative Cultures
- 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, the Strike—Reprise
- 15 A Tale of Two Cities: Death, Survival, and Powerlessness in the Neo-Liberal Age
- 16 Epilogue: Working-class Sublime
- Index of Names
- Subject Index
- Index of Places and Notable Things
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