From Peasant to Entrepreneur: The Survival of the Family Economy in Italy

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The conspicuous success in Italy of a highly dynamic sector of small, rurally based manufacturing businesses has attracted a considerable amount of attention throughout both Europe and the United States in recent years. This book links this development in Italy to the processes of transformation of certain parts of the Italian countryside over the last hundred years and argues that the involvement of peasant families with both agricultural and industrial employment - a constant of the situation before the First World War - produced an entrepreneurial spirit that was subsequently reflected in the development of rural industries.

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"... an important study." Business History '... this book should prove of interest not just to economists concerned with the somewhat unusual patterns of Italian economic development, but also to political scientists, historians, and sociologists.' Modern Italy 'This impressive case study is a welcome addition to the body of literature on the origins and nature of the "Third Italy" '. Italy

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Anna Bull Lecturer in Italian History and Politics,University of Bath Paul Corner Professor of Contemporary Italian History, University of Sienna