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Migration flows in the Euro-Mediterranean region. The case of Italy
No full textThis chapter aims to futher our knowledge of migration, with particular reference to Italy. With the outbreak of the 2008 crisis, precisely because much of the youth work was based on flexible contracts, the unemployment rate doubled in seven years, exceeding 12% in 2013. In March 2014, 3.248 million people were out of work (almost 1.5 million more than in 2008). Among them, young people were the group most affected by the economic crisis and the loss of work: between 2008 and 2014, according to ISTAT data, the employment rate of people under 35 decreased by more than 10 percentage points - from 50.3 to 39.1%. However, after that negative peak, the employment rate of 15-34 years old has only very slightly improved to 40.8% today (2019). It is no coincidence that since 2008 Italian emigration has started to increase again. In 2014 Italian newspapers began to highlight the departure of more than 80,000 peopple from the country: “a city like Udine or La Spezia was emptied in the space of a year”. But this was just the beginning, as emigration soared in successive years
Globalizzazione, disuguaglianze, migrazioni Introduzione alla storia economica contemporanea
No full textIl volume analizza i fatti storici ed economici attraverso la caleidoscopica prospettiva del colonialismo e della decolonizzazione, sottolineando l’importanza che quest’ultima ricopre per la comprensione di fenomeni attuali quali migrazioni, scomposizione dei territori, disuguaglianze, terrorismo. L’autrice offre una panoramica approfondita dei temi trattati – colonizzazione, decolonizzazione, globalizzazione esaminandoli dal punto di vista della storia economica e della demografia (con il contributo in alcuni capitoli del libro di Elena Ambrosetti, docente di demografia della Sapienza Università di Roma), e implementandoli con molteplici riferimenti all’attualità, come la disuguaglianza tra Stati e regioni e le politiche migratorie. Si ricostruiscono così i cambiamenti a livello socioeconomico dei territori che, come in un gigantesco puzzle, compongono il globo, evidenziando i fattori che hanno influito sul consolidamento dell’attuale sistema economico mondiale e mostrando come, dopo la crisi del 2007, sia ormai necessario creare nuove regole e nuove istituzioni per i sempre più numerosi esclusi e naufraghi della globalizzazione
LARRINAGA, Carlos and Donatella STRANGIO, eds. 2023. The Development of the Hotel and Tourism Industry in the Twentieth Century. Comparative Perspectives from Western Europe, 1900-1970. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 222 pp.
No full textLarrinaga, Carlos and Donatella Strangio, eds. 2023. The Development of the Hotel and Tourism Industry in the Twentieth Century. Comparative Perspectives from Western Europe, 1900-1970. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 222 pp.
Larrinaga, Carlos and Donatella Strangio, eds. 2023. The Development of the Hotel and Tourism Industry in the Twentieth Century. Comparative Perspectives from Western Europe, 1900-1970. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 222 pp.
Larrinaga, Carlos y Donatella Strangio, eds. 2023. The Development of the Hotel and Tourism Industry in the Twentieth Century. Comparative Perspectives from Western Europe, 1900-1970. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 222 pp.
Introduzione. Le chiavi di lettura di un lavoro interdisciplinare
No full textL’Africa è il filo conduttore di questi saggi che vogliono essere anche un tributo oltre che un segnale tangibile della testimonianza degli studi di Calchi Novati, al quale il volume è dedicato. Il volume è diviso in diverse parti (che riguardano la metodologia, il colonialismo, gli aspetti storico e socio-economici e il fenomeno delle migrazioni) proprio a sottolineare la ricchezza delle prospettive che offre lo studio dell’Africa che, se da una parte potrebbero rappresentare un puzzle di temi diversi dall’altra offre complessità, varietà e approfondimenti nell’affrontarne la lettura. A questo riguardo sono stati coinvolti studiosi di diverse discipline, storici, storici-economici, antropologi, demografi i cui lavori hanno come oggetto l’Africa italiana (Libia, Eritrea, Somalia e in parte Etiopia) ma non solo (Algeria, Tunisia, Kenya) in considerazione del fatto che l’Africa oggi è il prodotto di come questa area del mondo è entrata nel contesto internazionale, attraverso il colonialismo e, dopo, attraverso il processo di decolonizzazione. L’interdisciplinarietà è probabilmente il metodo migliore per conoscere la complessità dell’Africa; sono diversi e complessi gli aspetti che si sono stratificati nel corso del tempo ed è per questo che si ritiene utile se non strategico affrontarne lo studio attraverso questo approccio
The Roman Stock Exchange between the 19th and 20th Centuries. A History of the Italian Stock Market
No full textThe goal of the author, Donatella Strangio, consists of a serious and
documented analysis of the evolution of the city through a particular
observatory, that of the Stock Exchange, considered not so much as an
exclusive or absolute protagonist of the financial market, but rather as a
subject and object of the history, certainly economic, but also social and
political, of Rome and the Papal State. In addition, this singular observa tory, despite its atypical nature, seems to be valuable for the purposes of
an overall analysis of the behaviour of the local, national and international
executive and entrepreneurial classes.
Focussing on six key historical moments, the book starts from the
decline in the Pope’s temporal power—the aforementioned breach of
Porta Pia-: an epochal event, here linked to previous institutional and
social transformations as well as to the level of nineteenth–twentieth
century internal and external relations. As the subtitle of the work explic itly states (Structure and activity of the Rome stock market between the
nineteenth and twentieth centuries: a history of the Italian stockexchange),
the periodization adopted by the Author is also unconventional.
Starting from 1821—and nevertheless attentive to some important
pre-existing joints—Strangio examines the dynamics triggered by the
Commerce Regulations to clarify how the Roman stock exchange reacted
with respect to the Risorgimento and subsequently to the establishment
of the Kingdom of Italy. Embracing both the liberal period and that of
the “Belle époque”, the study finally reaches the First World War (as
the author recalls, it was with the Great War that the “long nineteenth
century” ended and a new system of contacts and of exchanges appeared,
thanks to which the Eternal City abandoned the welfare model that had
distinguished it most in previous centuries), and then proceeds to the
following decades. This long-term approach allows Donatella Strangio to
convincingly demonstrate how, far from confining it to a more restricted
space, becoming the Italian capital greatly facilitated the evolution of the urban development trends in Rome, finally released from the nefarious
effects of the papal public debt, from which it had suffered for some time,
aggravated by the “amputation” of the territory of the Patrimony of St.
Peter, after 1861. The rhythms imposed by being the capital influenced
all sectors and economic sectors of the city, from industry to the tertiary
sector.
Rome Capital City therefore traces the historical evolution of the
legislation that is the object of its investigation, the role of financial inter mediaries, and the functions of the decision-making and control bodies
that were part of the Rome Stock Exchange, in particular in light of the
consolidation of the British capitalist model and the Northern European
one.
An unusual picture emerges, a picture that portrays the complex finan cial mechanisms of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries but also the
broad world of Roman entrepreneurship, which, moreover, can benefit
from the in-depth analysis of stock exchanges between 1860 and 1870,
as well as share prices up to the Great War, the Depression and the
consolidation of the Fascist period
Institutions and Practices of Social Assistant: Monte di Pietà of Rome
No full textThe origins of the Monte di Pietà, or Mount of Piety, in Rome are well-known: established on the initiative of Giovanni Calvi, a commissioner of the Franciscan Order in Rome and approved by Pope Paul III, the Monte opened in 1539. This paper (based on original archival sources) will document the expansion of the Monte’s operations from the 16th century onwards. Particular attention will be devoted not just to ethical concerns but to the key countercyclical function played by pawnbroking activities at the lower end of the market, not just from an economic viewpoint but from a political perspective as well. Indeed the Monte played an important, albeit indirect, political role, at crucial junctures in the 17th and 19th century history of papal Rome: easy access to cheap Monte credit was instrumental in keeping internal peace and preventing the flaring up of social tensions
Africa. Storia, Antropologia, Economia, Migrazioni
No full textL’Africa è il filo conduttore di questi saggi che vogliono essere anche un tributo oltre che un segnale tangibile della testimonianza degli studi di Calchi Novati, al quale il volume è dedicato. Il volume è diviso in diverse parti (che riguardano la metodologia, il colonialismo, gli aspetti storico e socio-economici e il fenomeno delle migrazioni) proprio a sottolineare la ricchezza delle prospettive che offre lo studio dell’Africa che, se da una parte potrebbero rappresentare un puzzle di temi diversi dall’altra offre complessità, varietà e approfondimenti nell’affrontarne la lettura. A questo riguardo sono stati coinvolti studiosi di diverse discipline, storici, storici-economici, antropologi, demografi i cui lavori hanno come oggetto l’Africa italiana (Libia, Eritrea, Somalia e in parte Etiopia) ma non solo (Algeria, Tunisia, Kenya) in considerazione del fatto che l’Africa oggi è il prodotto di come questa area del mondo è entrata nel contesto internazionale, attraverso il colonialismo e, dopo, attraverso il processo di decolonizzazione. L’interdisciplinarietà è probabilmente il metodo migliore per conoscere la complessità dell’Africa; sono diversi e complessi gli aspetti che si sono stratificati nel corso del tempo ed è per questo che si ritiene utile se non strategico affrontarne lo studio attraverso questo approccio
The Hospitality Sector in Italy. Hotel Industry and Tourist Flows in Rome in the Interwar Period
No full textThis study focuses on the evolution of the tourist accommodation sector in Italy in the interwar period, relating it to the development of tourist flows. In the first post-war period, the recovery of the Italian hotel industry was quite rapid and soon turned into a development process that lasted, with alternating phases, almost until the Second World War. Thisdevelopment was most evident in those areas which, due to their natural or artistic beauty, had a greater capacity to attract tourists. Among these areas, one of the most significant examples is the city of Rome, which constitutes the case study that will be examined. During these years, the hospitality sector was fed by tourist flows that were becoming more substantial and changing in composition. The weight of traditional elite tourism was gradually diminishing as other social segments began to account for a larger part of the tourist demand. At that time, it was mainly the white-collar middle classes that fed this process of change, anticipating the later massification of tourism. Moreover, domestic tourism became the largest component, at least in terms of numbers. It is worth noting that the Fascist regime partly contributed to these changes through various initiatives that helped to bring tourism closer to many Italians who had previously been excluded from it and who, in those years, began to “experience the joys of tourism”. The spread of tourism among Italians formed part of the strategies to consolidate popular consensus in a totalitarian view of the control of the leisure time of the masses, but the regime also paid attention to increasing foreign tourism, which had always been crucial in the balance of payments adjustment processes. As a result, the Italian hotel system, including that of Rome, was faced with the need to transform and update the tourist hospitality offered in the various market segments, but, for various reasons, it was only partially able to satisfy the modernisation requirements demanded by the market
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