From Peasant to Entrepreneur - The Survival of the Family Economy in Italy

The conspicuous success in Italy of a highly dynamic sector of small, rurally based manufacturing businesses has attracted a considerable amount of attention throughout both Europe and the United States in recent years. This book links this development in Italy to the processes of transformation of certain parts of the Italian countryside over the last hundred years and argues that the involvement of peasant families with both agricultural and industrial employment - a constant of the situation before the First World War - produced an entrepreneurial spirit that was subsequently reflected in the development of rural industries.>

Product details

• Authors: A. Bull, Anna Bull, Anna Cento Bull, Paul Corner
• Assisted by: Anna Bull (Editor), Anna Cento Bull (Editor), Bull Anna (Editor), Paul Corner (Editor), Corner Paul (Editor)
• Publisher: Berg Publishers Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 23.06.1993
• EAN: 9780854963096
• ISBN: 978-0-85496-309-6
• No. of pages: 192
• Dimensions: 138 mm x 216 mm x 15 mm
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Entrepreneurship, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Industries / General, Entrepreneurship, Italy, Industry & industrial studies, Industry and industrial studies, Entrepreneurship / Start-ups