Journal title QUADERNI DI ECONOMIA DEL LAVORO
Author/s Omar Mazzotti, Luciano Maffi, Stefano Magagnoli
Publishing Year 2026 Issue 2023/117
Language Italian Pages 23 P. 135-157 File size 111 KB
DOI 10.3280/QUA2023-117006
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The return to the countryside has experienced great success in recent years, often accompanied by the search for a renewed relationship with nature and the environment, also thanks to the huge improvements in the organisation of work on farms and in material living conditions. The ‘great transformation’ of farming in terms of productivity gains took place during the 19th century, contributing to the transformation of European agriculture, albeit with considerable regional differences. The impact of these changes in terms of increased overall production and productivity is indisputable, even if the improvement in the economic and social conditions of farmers as a result of the modernisation process took place at different times and in different ways. In some ways the living standards of the Italian agricultural worker in the second half of the 19th century could be summarised in the definition of ‘generalised malaise’. This malaise smouldered under the ashes in liberal Italy and during fascism, and that re-emerged – as part of a political project of transformation – after the Second World War, when the improvement of agricultural labour conditions became a primary objective. This article, in its first part, analyses the malaise in the countryside from the post-unification period to the First World War. In the second part, it highlights the strategies activated in the post-WWII period by workers and their representative organisations (often related to political parties) to achieve improvements in living and working conditions.
Keywords: Agricultural labour, Sharecropping, Peasant struggles, Jacini agrarian enquiry.
Omar Mazzotti, Luciano Maffi, Stefano Magagnoli, Il lavoro contadino nelle campagne emiliano-romagnole (XIX-XX secc.): dal malessere al benessere? in "QUADERNI DI ECONOMIA DEL LAVORO" 117/2023, pp 135-157, DOI: 10.3280/QUA2023-117006