Autore
Tedesco, Paolo

Titolo
Franco Ramella e la microstoria del capitalismo
Periodico
Quaderni storici
Anno: 2024 - Volume: 177 - Fascicolo: 3 - Pagina iniziale: 771 - Pagina finale: 787

This essay traces the intellectual trajectories of Franco Ramella as a political activist and a historian. After taking part in Italy’s radical left-wing upsurge, Ramella turned to writing about the early history of Italian capitalism and working-class resistance. His brilliant work on the transformation of the Italian countryside has strong echoes of E.P. Thompson’s "The Making of the English Working Class", but it also incorporates the innovative tools of the then emerging Microhistorical School. In his scholarship, Ramella effectively combines these two methodological approaches, Marxism and Microhistory, to explore both the collapse of the «old» agrarian world and the formation of the industrial working class in the late nineteenth-century Northern Italy. His investigation reveals how industrialization generated changes in demographic regimes, the female condition, living standards, and how social and spatial mobility impacted on both individuals and their families.



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