54 research outputs found
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
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
Migrants in Europe: From a production factor to social actors
No full textMigration is a constant feature of the human species and has been an intrinsic characteristic of the world population to the present day. With the onset of the second industrial revolution, new technologies
allowed modern means of transportation to connect the world and create a global labour market. The number of people moving across the world soared and was supported by the fact that restrictions on migrants were virtually non-existent. In the interwar period, both the United States and most Latin America and European receiving countries introduced stricter immigration laws and quotas on the number of incomers. Since then migration movements have become increasingly dependent on the laws and regulations of each single destination nation.
This book examines migration from, to and within Europe incorporating a variety of perspectives and applying a multidisciplinary approach
The economic bases of migration from Italy: the distinct cases of Tunisia and Libya (1880s–1960s)
No full textThe objective of this essay is to offer an original contribution to the issue of Italian migration to Africa from a historical-economic perspective. Our research will consider the motivations that led many Italians to emigrate to Tunisia and Libya and, secondly, it will explore what was the return path from Tunisia and Libya for Italian emigrants. The cases discussed investigate two different realities of Italian emigration, a ‘free’ migration toward a country colonised by others and a migration imposed and sponsored by the Italiangovernment. In the first case, we observed how Italians, particularly from the South and the islands, were predominantly drawn to Tunisia because the country was geographically close and offered good economic opportunities to Italian emigrants. In the case of Libya, the fascist colonial model aimed at creating settlements inhabited by Italians regardless of the real opportunities offered by the land to Italian migrants. The reasons behind the repatriations, in both cases, lie in the decolonisation of the African continent. The decolonisation process in both countries proceeded through a first phase where they privileged the recruitment of local or ‘African’ workforce rather than ‘foreign/Italian’ labourers, and a second phase that saw the requisition of all foreign assets and properties
Un viaggio di solo ritorno: migrazione e rientro degli italiani in Africa. Il caso di Tunisia e Libia
No full textQuesto lavoro vuole in parte offrire un contributo originale a livello di approccio storico-economico alla questione e in parte essere una sintesi su quanto già noto e abbondantemente studiato sull’emigrazione italiana nell’Africa mediterranea: si cercherà di valutare quali furono, in primis, le motivazioni che spinsero gli italiani a emigrare in Tunisia e Libia, se e cosa l’Africa a quel tempo poteva offrire in termini di migliori condizioni di vita e salariali e quale fu il percorso di ritorno dalla Tunisia e dalla Libia degli emigranti italiani
Un viaggio di solo ritorno: migrazione e rientro degli italiani in Africa. Il caso di Tunisia e Libia
No full textQuesto lavoro in parte vuole offrire un contributo originale a livello di approccio storico-economico alla questione e in parte essere una sintesi su quanto già noto e abbondantemente studiato sull'emigrazione ital8iana nell'Africa mediterranea: si cercherà di valutare quali furono in primis le motivazioni che spinsero gli italiani a emigrare in Tunisia e in Libia, se e cosa l'Africa a quel tempo poteva offrire in termini di migliori condizioni di vita e salariali e quale fu il percorso di ritorno dalla Tunisia e dalla Libia degli emigranti italian
Political parties
No full textAcross the globe voters are losing faith in political parties - from both the left and the right. But why do we have parties and was there ever a time when politicians were independent and not bound by party rules?
Guests
Stephen Ingle - Professor History and Politics at Sterling University
David Karol - Associate Professor of Government and Politics at the University of Maryland
Paul Strangio - Associate Professor of Politics at Monash University
Publications
Title: The British Party System: An Introduction
Author: Stephen Ingle
Publisher: Routledge
Released: 31 Mar 2008
Title: Confusion : the making of the Australian two-party system
Author: Paul Strangio and Nick Dyrenfurth
Publisher: Melbourne University
Released: 31 Mar 2009
Title: "Political Parties in American Political Development" in The Oxford Handbook of American Political Development
Author: David Karol
Publisher: Oxford Handbook online
Released:30 Oct 2014
Credits
Presenter: Annabelle Quince
Producer: Annabelle Quinc
La "diaspora italiana": l'emigrazione italiana in Argentina
No full textIl capitolo ha l'obiettivo di analizzare l'emigrazione italiana in Argentina tra gli anni Trenta e Settanta del secolo scorso. Il capitolo si focalizza sulle politiche migratorie, sui flussi migratori tra le due guerre e nel secondo dopoguerra e infine sul contributo degli emigrati italiani al settore industriale argentino
Mothering from afar: the subjective well-being of Eastern European migrants in Italy
No full textTransnational parenthood is a strongly gendered experience. Both emigrated women and men sustain their left-behind children’s needs through material provision and remittances. However, mothers in particular are expected to continue providing emotional care from a distance. Such pressure placed on migrant mothers is reported to negatively affect their well-being and limit their chances of integration in host societies. This chapter aims to provide the first quantitative appraisal on the relationship between transnational motherhood and Eastern European migrant women’s subjective well-being in Italy. By applying heteroskedastic ordered modelling to the Istat Survey on Social condition and integration of foreign citizens 2011-2012, twelve health-related subjective well-being indicators are analysed in relation to migrant women’s family status. Findings show that, compared to childless migrants and migrant mothers living with their children in Italy, transnational mothers suffer from lower subjective well-being in both the physical and the mental health domains. The chapter concludes by discussing the need to promote radical improvement in migration data production and collection by consistently assuming a transnational and gender-sensitive perspective in survey design to increase awareness of the gendered nature of many aspects of migration, including family relations across borders
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