Author : Elda Gentili Zappi
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1991-07-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 079140482X
If Eight Hours Seem Too Few by Elda Gentili Zappi Pdf
This book is the first to present a vivid and accurate picture of the thousands of women who worked weeding the rice fields in northern Italy during the early part of the nineteenth century. It explores a wide range of issues including the political, economic, and social history of Italy; labor legislation; the role of the judicial system; the sexual division of labor; family structure; class conflict between the rural proletariat and the politically influential capitalist farmers; work-related diseases; internal migration of labor; and child labor. The author provides penetrating insights into the Socialist Partys efforts to wrest women workers from the influence of the Catholic Church; the history of Italian feminism and the campaign for the vote; and finally, the workers opposition to Italys entrance into World War I. She analyzes the weeders relations with labor organizers; their desire to preserve their autonomy; and their decisions regarding labor actions; and she highlights similarities between the weeders experiences and those of other women workers and labor organizers in Europe and the U. S..
