| If Eight Hours Seem Too Few: Mobilization of Women Workers in the Italian Rice Fields Contributor(s): Zappi, Elda Gentili (Author) |
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ISBN: 079140482X ISBN-13: 9780791404829 Publisher: State University of New York Press OUR PRICE: $35.10 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: July 1991 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Women's Studies |
| Dewey: 331.483 |
| LCCN: 90-9581 |
| Series: Suny Women and Work |
| Physical Information: (1.22 lbs) 396 pages |
| Themes: - Sex & Gender - Feminine |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This book is the first to present a vivid and accurate picture of the thousands of women who worked weeding the rice fields in northern Italy during the early part of the nineteenth century. It explores a wide range of issues including the political, economic, and social history of Italy; labor legislation; the role of the judicial system; the sexual division of labor; family structure; class conflict between the rural proletariat and the politically influential capitalist farmers; work-related diseases; internal migration of labor; and child labor. The author provides penetrating insights into the Socialist Party's efforts to wrest women workers from the influence of the Catholic Church; the history of Italian feminism and the campaign for the vote; and finally, the workers' opposition to Italy's entrance into World War I. She analyzes the weeders' relations with labor organizers; their desire to preserve their autonomy; and their decisions regarding labor actions; and she highlights similarities between the weeders' experiences and those of other women workers and labor organizers in Europe and the U. S.. |