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If Eight Hours Seem Too Few
Mobilization of Women Workers in the Italian Rice Fields

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Elda Gentili Zappi - Author

SUNY series on Women and Work

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Hardcover - 396 pages

Release Date: July 1991

ISBN10: 0-7914-0481-1
ISBN13: 978-0-7914-0481-2

Price: $33.95
Paperback - 396 pages

Release Date: July 1991

ISBN10: 0-7914-0482-X
ISBN13: 978-0-7914-0482-9

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Summary

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.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. The Formation of a Female Labor Force in the Rice Fields

2. Weeders' Lives

3. The Early Stage of Mobilization: Protest Actions, Socialist Propaganda, and the Weeders' Response in 1901

4. The First Results of Mobilization

5. Years of Progress, Years of Action, 1903-6

6. Holding the Line, 1907-10

7. Withstanding Agrarian Militancy and Wars, 1911-15

8. Weeders' Consciousness as Women and Workers

Conclusion

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Related Subjects

Sociology of Work

22486/23806(LGP//)

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