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In Gold We Trust : Social Capital and Economic Change in the Italian Jewelry Towns /

"In Gold We Trust is a historical and sociological account of how, by the late 1960s, three small Italian towns had come to lead the world in the production of gold jewelry - even though they had virtually no jewelry industry less than a century before, and even though Italy had western Europe&...

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Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: PRINCETON : PRINCETON UNIV Press, 2007.
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • Introduction : the political economy of small-scale industrialization in twentieth-century Italy
  • The socialists' "city of gold" : Valenza Po's jewelry industry from the 1890s to the fascist era
  • Negotiating the economic miracle : Valenza Po's jewelry industry in the decades after World War II
  • From craftsmen to craftsmen : the development of Vicenza's jewelry industry
  • A pyramid of trust : the development of Arezzo's jewelry industry
  • The epistemology of craftsmanship : patterns of style and skill formation
  • Constructing locality : the jewelry towns, the international market, and the Italian state
  • Between development and decline : jewelry work from an international perspective.