Some Socio-Economic Emigration Differentials in Rural Italy, 1902-1913

McDonald, J. Scott

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“…For example, in the view of John S MacDonald, emigrants from Italy, especially those from the southern regions and the rural areas of the country, were workers who did not intend to participate in strikes or labor agitation and were unwilling to support the Socialist Party at the polls in their birthplace. They had therefore decided to improve their situation by means of expatriation rather than subversion (MacDonald, 1958(MacDonald, , 1963. Similarly, Renzo Del Carria (1979) has contended that, for defeated revolutionaries, emigration was the equivalent of flight, especially when the failure of strikes resulted in the blacklisting of labor activists.…”

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Emigration and Italians’ transnational radical politicization

Luconi

2013

Forum Italicum: A Journal of Italian Studies

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Scholarship has long suggested that, in the decades of mass migration, Italian subversives were part of a global network based on the worldwide circulation of radical ideas and activists. Yet historiography has studied such dynamics mainly in the receiving countries and has tended to overlook the Italian side of those interactions. This article examines Italian migrants’ development of political and labor militancy in a transnational perspective. It focuses primarily on the contribution of the experience abroad to Italian radicalism and offers a few examples of the influence that migrants tried to exert, directly or indirectly, in their native country. On the one hand, expatriates often invested part of their remittances to support workers’ mutual aid societies, local unions, political newspapers, and strikes. On the other, returnees were able to draw on the new strategies and ideas they had learned abroad when taking part in the class struggle and political battles in Italy.

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Emigration and Italians’ transnational radical politicization

Luconi

2013

Forum Italicum: A Journal of Italian Studies

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Theory Travelling through Time and Space: The Reception of the Concept of Amoral Familism

Huysseune

2019

Int J Polit Cult Soc

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Migration and Peasant Militance: Western Sicily, 1880-1910

Gabaccia

1984

Social Science History

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Although writers like Stephenson (1979) have questioned the assumption, many historians of immigration continue to argue that geographic mobility and levels of working-class consciousness (as expressed in trade unions, strikes, or workers’ political parties) are negatively related. In so arguing, recent studies follow the work of MacDonald and MacDonald, who claim that where migration from Italy was high, labor militance was low (MacDonald, 1963, 1958; MacDonald and MacDonald, 1964). For example, Barton (1975) and Yans-McLaughlin (1977) argue that familist southern and eastern European peasants living in fluid, complex societies were most likely to emigrate to the United States, in hopes of improving their positions in their home villages. Their familism—strong solidarity within the nuclear family and concomitant competitiveness in relations with those outside the nuclear group—discouraged voluntary associations, including participation in workers’ organization both in Italy and in the United States.

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Some Socio-Economic Emigration Differentials in Rural Italy, 1902-1913

Cited by 8 publications

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Emigration and Italians’ transnational radical politicization

Emigration and Italians’ transnational radical politicization

Theory Travelling through Time and Space: The Reception of the Concept of Amoral Familism

Migration and Peasant Militance: Western Sicily, 1880-1910

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