1.
Marcon, Gabriele
‘One gets rich, one hundred more work for nothing’: German miners in Medici Tuscany Book Chapter
In: Batista, Anamarija; Müller, Viola; Peres, Corinna (Ed.): Coercion and Wage Labour. Exploring Work Relations through History and Art, 2024.
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2.
Peres, Corinna
Female Work Arrangements in the Datini Letters: Exploring the Semantic Roles and Negotiating Scopes of Servants, Slaves, and Wet Nurses Journal Article
In: Austrian Journal of Historical Studies, vol. 34, iss. 2, pp. 126-149, 2023.
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3.
Livi, Massimiliano
“I certainly wouldn’t call it work anymore”. The Reconfiguration of Work in Italy during the 1970s from a Historical Semantics Perspective Journal Article
In: Austrian Journal of Historical Studies, vol. 34, iss. 2, pp. 175-198, 2023.
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4.
Marcon, Gabriele
Inveigled or Invited? The Migration of German Miners to the Medici Mines in Sixteenth-Century Tuscany Book Chapter
In: Bernardi, Claudia; Müller, Viola; Stojić, Biljana; Vilhelmsson, Vilhelm (Ed.): Moving Workers: Historical Perspectives on Labour, Coercion and Im/Mobilities, 2023.
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5.
Barker, Hannah
The Risk of Birth. Life Insurance for Enslaved Pregnant Women in Fifteenth-Century Genoa Journal Article
In: Journal of Global Slavery, vol. 6, iss. 2, pp. 187–217, 2021.
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6.
Mocarelli, Luca; Ongaro, Giulio
Work in Early Modern Italy, 1500-1800 Book
2019.
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7.
Caracausi, Andrea
A Reassessment of the Role of Guild Courts in Disputes over Apprenticeship Contracts: A Case Study from Early Modern Italy Journal Article
In: Continuity and Change, vol. 32, iss. 1, pp. 85-114, 2017.
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8.
Pizzolato, Nico
The IWW in Turin: “Militant History,” Workers’ Struggle, and the Crisis of Fordism in 1970s Italy Journal Article
In: International Labor and Working Class History, vol. 91, pp. 109-126, 2017.
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9.
Pizzolato, Nico
A new revolutionary practice: operaisti and the 'refusal of work' in 1970's Italy Journal Article
In: Estudos Históricos, 2017.
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10.
Schiel, Juliane
Slaves’ Religious Choice in Renaissance Venice: Applying Insights from Missionary Narratives to Slave Baptism Records Journal Article
In: Archivio Veneto, iss. 146, pp. 23-45, 2015.
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2024
Marcon, Gabriele
‘One gets rich, one hundred more work for nothing’: German miners in Medici Tuscany Book Chapter
In: Batista, Anamarija; Müller, Viola; Peres, Corinna (Ed.): Coercion and Wage Labour. Exploring Work Relations through History and Art, 2024.
Tags: early modern history, europe, germany, italy, mining, wage labour
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2023
Peres, Corinna
Female Work Arrangements in the Datini Letters: Exploring the Semantic Roles and Negotiating Scopes of Servants, Slaves, and Wet Nurses Journal Article
In: Austrian Journal of Historical Studies, vol. 34, iss. 2, pp. 126-149, 2023.
Abstract | Tags: europe, gender, historical semantics, italy, medieval history, service, slavery
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Livi, Massimiliano
“I certainly wouldn’t call it work anymore”. The Reconfiguration of Work in Italy during the 1970s from a Historical Semantics Perspective Journal Article
In: Austrian Journal of Historical Studies, vol. 34, iss. 2, pp. 175-198, 2023.
Abstract | Tags: 20th century, historical semantics, italy
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Marcon, Gabriele
Inveigled or Invited? The Migration of German Miners to the Medici Mines in Sixteenth-Century Tuscany Book Chapter
In: Bernardi, Claudia; Müller, Viola; Stojić, Biljana; Vilhelmsson, Vilhelm (Ed.): Moving Workers: Historical Perspectives on Labour, Coercion and Im/Mobilities, 2023.
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2021
Barker, Hannah
The Risk of Birth. Life Insurance for Enslaved Pregnant Women in Fifteenth-Century Genoa Journal Article
In: Journal of Global Slavery, vol. 6, iss. 2, pp. 187–217, 2021.
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2019
Mocarelli, Luca; Ongaro, Giulio
Work in Early Modern Italy, 1500-1800 Book
2019.
Abstract | Tags: early modern history, italy, mediterranean
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Caracausi, Andrea
A Reassessment of the Role of Guild Courts in Disputes over Apprenticeship Contracts: A Case Study from Early Modern Italy Journal Article
In: Continuity and Change, vol. 32, iss. 1, pp. 85-114, 2017.
Abstract | Tags: apprenticeship, early modern history, italy, quantitative research, work contracts
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Pizzolato, Nico
The IWW in Turin: “Militant History,” Workers’ Struggle, and the Crisis of Fordism in 1970s Italy Journal Article
In: International Labor and Working Class History, vol. 91, pp. 109-126, 2017.
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abstract = {This article analyses how in the 1970s a segment of Italian radical activists belonging to the tradition of operaismo (workerism) appropriated and interrogated the history of the International Workers of the World (IWW) using it as a tool of political intervention in the Italian context. Following the upheaval of the ‘Hot Autumn’, the IWW provided to the Italians an inspiring comparison with a militant labour organisation in times of changing composition of the working class and of transformation of the organisation of production. The importance of this political use of the past lies in the way it illuminates the particular context in which these activists operated. In the course of the 1970s, Italian radicals responded to the normalization of industrial relations by joining groups that endorsed a political line tinted with Leninism and advocated a revolution led by a vanguard of militants. This was in contrast to the tenets of shopfloor-centered strategy and grassroots and shopfloor participation typical of operaismo. The – eventually – failed attempt of the ‘militant historians’ to revive, through their distinctive interpretation of the IWW, that political tradition sheds light on the success of the backlash against shopfloor working class militancy at the end of the decade, when vanguard groups had become marginal in the factories and reformist unions lacked a political clout to oppose company restructuring and relocation. This article is based on articles, memoirs and interviews that are evidence of the politically-driven debate about the IWW among Italian radicals. It improves on the existing historiography of the Italian labour movement by resisting its teleological impulse to explain the backlash on the 1980s as an inevitable outcome. It also contributes to the burgeoning transnational labor historiography; it challenges methodological nationalism in the study of workers’ insurgency by charting the influence of US history far beyond its borders and across time, adopting a transnational approach that is, unusually, both geographical and a diachronic. This story tells us more about Italian history than it does about American history, but it is testimony to a far reaching influence of American history and to entanglements that crossed borders through the work of the activists, scholars, and translators who acted as transnational vehicles of ideas and political practices.
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This article analyses how in the 1970s a segment of Italian radical activists belonging to the tradition of operaismo (workerism) appropriated and interrogated the history of the International Workers of the World (IWW) using it as a tool of political intervention in the Italian context. Following the upheaval of the ‘Hot Autumn’, the IWW provided to the Italians an inspiring comparison with a militant labour organisation in times of changing composition of the working class and of transformation of the organisation of production. The importance of this political use of the past lies in the way it illuminates the particular context in which these activists operated. In the course of the 1970s, Italian radicals responded to the normalization of industrial relations by joining groups that endorsed a political line tinted with Leninism and advocated a revolution led by a vanguard of militants. This was in contrast to the tenets of shopfloor-centered strategy and grassroots and shopfloor participation typical of operaismo. The – eventually – failed attempt of the ‘militant historians’ to revive, through their distinctive interpretation of the IWW, that political tradition sheds light on the success of the backlash against shopfloor working class militancy at the end of the decade, when vanguard groups had become marginal in the factories and reformist unions lacked a political clout to oppose company restructuring and relocation. This article is based on articles, memoirs and interviews that are evidence of the politically-driven debate about the IWW among Italian radicals. It improves on the existing historiography of the Italian labour movement by resisting its teleological impulse to explain the backlash on the 1980s as an inevitable outcome. It also contributes to the burgeoning transnational labor historiography; it challenges methodological nationalism in the study of workers’ insurgency by charting the influence of US history far beyond its borders and across time, adopting a transnational approach that is, unusually, both geographical and a diachronic. This story tells us more about Italian history than it does about American history, but it is testimony to a far reaching influence of American history and to entanglements that crossed borders through the work of the activists, scholars, and translators who acted as transnational vehicles of ideas and political practices.
Pizzolato, Nico
A new revolutionary practice: operaisti and the 'refusal of work' in 1970's Italy Journal Article
In: Estudos Históricos, 2017.
Abstract | Tags: 20th century, italy, labour movements, revolt and revolution
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abstract = {The social protest that engulfed Italy in the 1970s found a theoretical analysis in the work of the operaisti. Through a series of concepts, they outlined a new revolutionary practice that aimed to return to a more authentic reading of Marxism. This article focuses on the notion of 'refusal of work' and the ancillary concept of 'appropriation' and examines how these theoretical tools emerged out of radical protest in factories and were put forward by the operaisti as a central plank of a revolutionary strategy for the working class.
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The social protest that engulfed Italy in the 1970s found a theoretical analysis in the work of the operaisti. Through a series of concepts, they outlined a new revolutionary practice that aimed to return to a more authentic reading of Marxism. This article focuses on the notion of 'refusal of work' and the ancillary concept of 'appropriation' and examines how these theoretical tools emerged out of radical protest in factories and were put forward by the operaisti as a central plank of a revolutionary strategy for the working class.
2015
Schiel, Juliane
Slaves’ Religious Choice in Renaissance Venice: Applying Insights from Missionary Narratives to Slave Baptism Records Journal Article
In: Archivio Veneto, iss. 146, pp. 23-45, 2015.
Abstract | Tags: christianity, italy, medieval history, slavery
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issue = {146},
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abstract = {This article investigates the motivation for and interests behind the baptism of slaves imported into late medieval Venice. It reviews Venetian slave sale records and reports left by mendicant missionaries and illustrates that baptism was less a matter of individual spiritual choice than a social practice perceived by the slave holders as an act of charity.
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This article investigates the motivation for and interests behind the baptism of slaves imported into late medieval Venice. It reviews Venetian slave sale records and reports left by mendicant missionaries and illustrates that baptism was less a matter of individual spiritual choice than a social practice perceived by the slave holders as an act of charity.