L'industria e la Storia. La lezione di Giorgio Mori

Luciano Segreto

L'industria e la Storia. La lezione di Giorgio Mori

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The wide contribution of Giorgio Mori for a better understanding of the long-term historical relationships between history and industry is the focus of this chapter. By analysing the long list of books and articles written all along his scientific and academic life it is possible to trace a sort of fil rouge that permits to appreciate the huge effort made by this scholar in offering a fresh and never banal interpretation of the most relevant processes and episodes of the industrialization in Greta Britain and in Italy. The continuous effort made by Mori has been largely focused in trying to perceive, describe and analyse the different positions and points of view among the Italian (as well as the English) ruling classes in the attempt to implicitly criticise the orthodox vision proposed by some other historian close to the Italian Communist party that suggested the existence of a real social bloc dominating the Italian economy and society. His capacity to highlight new research fields in a period when business archives were still unavailable to researchers has been another important gift for all the community of economic historians, by showing – as he was frequently saying – that there is anything more inedited than what has been published. His heterodox approach can be appreciated also in his effort to dialogue with the business history and the entrepreneurial history coming as a new powerful wind from the US in the 1950’s and finally flourishing also in Italy between the 1970’s and the 1980’s.

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Luciano Segreto prof. dr

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Category:: Articles
Type:: publikacja w in. zagranicznym czasopiśmie naukowym (tylko język obcy)
Published in:: MISCELLANEA STORICA DELLA VALDELSA no. CXXI, edition 1/2(328-329), pages 71 - 84,
ISSN: 0026-5888
Language:: Italian
Publication year:: 2016
Bibliographic description:: Segreto L.. L'industria e la Storia. La lezione di Giorgio Mori. MISCELLANEA STORICA DELLA VALDELSA, 2016, Vol. CXXI, iss. 1/2(328-329), s.71-84
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