In gold we trust social capital and economic change in the Italian jewelry towns.
- XVI, 352 p.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
0-691-12697-6 hardback 978-0-691-12697-5 hardback
2006019002
Gold industry--Italy, Northern Jewelry trade--Italy, Northern Social capital (Sociology)--Italy, Northern #SBIB:94H5--Geschiedenis van Italië