Violence and the Great Estates in the South of Italy: Apulia, 1900 1922 (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780521527101)

Until Italian unification, vast areas of Apulia were an uninhabited sheep walk. In the late nineteenth century this frontier area was settled and agro-business established. In the quasi-colonial context of the South of Italy, the relations between landowners and farm workers were characterized by extreme forms of oppression and brutality. This book is a study of the world the landlords made and of the harsh structures of profit, tenure, and climate they faced. It is also a powerful investigation of the appallingly grim conditions in the teeming agricultural centres of the region and a vivid history of the struggle by the farm workers to win the ordinary decencies of life - clothes, clean water, and bread. In the process, the labourers formed a potent anarcho-syndicalist movement whose history the book relates from the first general strikes in 1901 to the restoration of the landlords' power by fascist terror in 1922.

Author: Frank Snowden
ISBN-10: 0521527104
ISBN-13: 9780521527101
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 06/07/2004
Pages: 256
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.59lbs
Size: 8.46h x 5.58w x 0.48d