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Fascism in Popular Memory

The Cultural Experience of the Turin Working Class (Studies in Modern Capitalism)

By Luisa Passerini

Hardcover | 9780521302906

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This book is based on the oral life histories of about 70 men and women workers, born between the end of the last century and 1920, which are combined with sources such as police reports, documentary films and judicial documents. The interviewees recount their visions of life, of history, and of theContinue

This book is based on the oral life histories of about 70 men and women workers, born between the end of the last century and 1920, which are combined with sources such as police reports, documentary films and judicial documents. The interviewees recount their visions of life, of history, and of themselves; they call to memory the fascist period, and the ambivalent relationship between the Duce and the masses. A picture of resistence emerges, through such minor episodes as jokes and graffiti, wearing a red tie or whistling an old socialist tune, and through major issues such as abortions carried out in direct opposition to state propaganda. Acquiescence is also recalled, however, in the enrollment of children in fascist youth organisations or in the use of new state-controlled social services. The final chapter reconstructs an event which acquired great symbolic meaning: the eloquent and unexpected silence of the Fiat workers before Mussolini in 1939 at the inauguration of the Miraflori factory.

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Book Details

  • English Books
  • Hardcover 254 Pages
  • ISBN-10: 0521302900
  • ISBN-13: 9780521302906
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press
  • Pub date: Mar 27, 1987
  • Dimensions: 1484 mm x 968 mm x 129 mm Just how big is that?
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