{"product_id":"politics-and-rhetoric-of-italian-edoardo-mollona-9781138344433","title":"Politics and Rhetoric of Italian State Steel Privatisation: A Gramscian Analysis","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe globally spreading privatisation wave that occurred in the 1990s deeply changed the structure of economic institutions worldwide. This turmoil overturned not only economic institutions, but shared cultural and societal institutions as well. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis book is the result of an investigation into the history of the privatisation of the steel industry in Italy, completed between 1994 and 1995. It explores the history of the Italian steel industry by looking at the interplay of local intertwined interests, political relations, and ideological formations that characterised an idiosyncratic hegemonic historical bloc. Rather than stigmatising this pattern as the legacy of a dysfunctional provincialism, the authors mobilise Gramsci's theory of hegemony to explain how the Italian privatisation process unfolded to accommodate economic pressures, political interests, and ideological constraints of a hegemonic social group, or aggregation of social groups. Thus, in reconstructing the privatisation of Italian steel, this book proposes a hegemony theory of privatisation and, more generally, describes a model that explains how political and cultural dynamics give rise to idiosyncratic local variations in globally spreading policies.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIt will be of interest to researchers, academics, and students in the fields of business history, economics, sociology, and political science.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Edoardo Mollona, Luca Pareschi\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1138344435\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781138344433\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Routledge\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/18\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 200\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.02lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.56d","brand":"Edoardo Mollona","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44365371474175,"sku":"9781138344433","price":170.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_70999c5b-5991-4350-8996-e3ab1e0e9757.jpg?v=1697058150","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/politics-and-rhetoric-of-italian-edoardo-mollona-9781138344433","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}