Journal title SOCIETÀ E STORIA
Author/s Gianluca Bo
Publishing Year 2024 Issue 2024/183
Language Italian Pages 37 P. 81-117 File size 277 KB
DOI 10.3280/SS2024-183008
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Between 1935 and 1941, approximately 200,000 Italians emigrated to Italian East Africa to participate in the construction of the road network. Despite the Fascist propaganda promoting the «empire of work», many of these unskilled labourers would have been affected by a position of social marginalisation, as well as economic and occupational instability. This article aims to investigate the individual responses (agency) of these subjects, both protagonists and subordinates of the Italian colonisation of Ethiopia. Specifically, the purpose of this study is to examine the impact of the workers’ settlement project and the distinctions between the colonial and motherland contexts. To revise the depiction of the «desperate emigrant passively at the mercy of fate», two archival sources will be utilised: autobiographical memoirs consisting of eleven diaries from the National Diaristic Archive, and funds held at the Institute of Ethiopian Studies containing information on the Criminal Court of Addis Ababa and the Italian workforce employment conditions.
Keywords: colonialism, Italian East Africa, unskilled workers, poor whites, subaltern.
Gianluca Bo, Gli operai stradali nell’AOI: condizioni economiche, precarietà e agency in "SOCIETÀ E STORIA " 183/2024, pp 81-117, DOI: 10.3280/SS2024-183008