The political economy of shopkeeping in Milan, 1886-1922
1993, First Edition. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and strong. Item #420751
ISBN: 0521391199
Physical description; xv, 312 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm. Series; Past and Present publications. Notes; Includes bibliographical references (p. 293-303) and index. Contents; Introduction: shopkeeping as a historical problem -- 1. The business of shopkeeping in Milan, 1859-1915 -- 2. The context of shopkeeping: trades and techniques -- 3. The economic geography of shopkeeping: the role of the dazio consumo -- 4. The esercenti enter the political arena -- 5. Constructing the esercenti movement, 1886-1890 -- 6. The esercenti and the depression, 1890-1897 -- 7. Shopkeepers, cooperatives and the politics of privilege -- 8. Milan and the national small-business movement, 1886-1898 -- 9. The allargamento debate, 1895-1897 -- 10. The end-of-century crisis and the enlargement of the dazio belt -- 11. Shopkeeping in the new century -- 12. Labour relations and class politics -- 13. The esercenti and the centre-left administration, 1900-1905 -- 14. Shopkeepers and Socialists 1905-1922 -- Conclusion: identity and autonomy. Subjects; Retail trade Government policy Italy Milan History. Stores, Retail Italy Milan History. Merchants Italy Milan History. Commercial policy. Lombardy (Italy).
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