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The Political Economy of Shopkeeping in Milan, 1886-1922 »

Authors: Jonathan Morris, Lyndal Roper
ISBN-13: 9780521391191, ISBN-10: 0521391199
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date Published: March 1993
Edition: (Non-applicable)

This book analyses the business, geography and politics of shopkeeping in Milan between 1886 and
1922.

	List of figures
	List of tables
	Acknowledgements
	Introduction: shopkeeping as a historical problem	1
1	The business of shopkeeping in Milan, 1859-1915	12
2	The context of shopkeeping: trades and techniques	36
3	The economic geography of shopkeeping: the role of the dazio consumo	64
4	The esercenti enter the political arena	89
5	Constructing the esercenti movement, 1886-1890	103
6	The esercenti and the depression, 1890-1897	121
7	Shopkeepers, cooperatives and the politics of privilege	140
8	Milan and the national small-business movement, 1886-1898	165
9	The allargamento debate, 1895-1897	176
10	The end-of-century crisis and the enlargement of the dazio belt	192
11	Shopkeeping in the new century	207
12	Labour relations and class politics	225
13	The esercenti and the centre-left administration, 1900-1905	238
14	Shopkeepers and Socialists 1905-1922	265
	Conclusion: identity and autonomy	285
	Bibliography	293
	Index	304