The Microfoundations of Italian Agrarianism: Italian Agricultural Economists and Fascism

D’Onofrio, Federico

doi:10.3098/ah.2017.091.3.369

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“…Since the Argentinian government intended to use the more advanced knowledge of European countries in this specific sector, it granted financial support to the young who wanted to enrol at agrarian schools in France and Italy. 68 In this way, in a key sector like that of wine and following the example of the Italian school of Conegliano, Argentina managed to take advantage of what the young trained in Europe had learned. Hence, also by investing in the qualification of human resources, Argentina could locate itself among the main world powers in terms of wine production and trading.…”

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Public education and professionalisation of Italian Agriculture (1861–1914)

Vaquero Piñeiro

2023

Rural History

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This paper analyses the formation in Italy of a school system focused on the training of technical and managerial personnel in the agricultural sector. Drawing on a rich literature on the relationship between school training, social change, and economic modernisation, this study details an under-researched aspect of the formation of the national state. Italy constitutes an exemplary case study as for the reforming action of public institutions in the field of education as well as the modernising policies that concerned the rural sector of the country before the First World War. Schools of agriculture in Italy became a means of social advancement not only for a wide sector of rural society but also for the children of the artisan and commercial bourgeoisie of small urban centres. This study thereby makes a novel contribution to the ongoing debate on the development of agriculture-related professions in Italy between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

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Public education and professionalisation of Italian Agriculture (1861–1914)

Vaquero Piñeiro

2023

Rural History

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Breadwinner, bread maker: the gender division of labour in 1930s rural Italy

Mancini

2023

European Review of Economic History

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This paper uses microdata assembled from a collection of family monographs to examine female work among rural households in interwar Italy. It finds that female employment in agriculture was very high (approximately 80 percent), which contradicts available estimates from population censuses (50 percent or less). Yet despite the pervasiveness of female work, time use remained extremely segregated by gender—women devoted less than half as many hours as men to paid work, instead specializing in producing services for the family. These results substantiate the calls for caution in interpreting standard labour market indicators, such as labour force participation, in the preindustrial past.

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