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Fascism in Popular Memory: The Cultural Experience of the Turin Working Class

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title Fascism in Popular Memory: The Cultural Experience of the Turin Working Class
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Luisa Passerini
SeriesStudies in Modern Capitalism
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:256
Dimensions(mm): Height 229,Width 152
Category/GenreWorld history - from c 1900 to now
Oral history
ISBN/Barcode 9780521108782
ClassificationsDewey:945.12
Audience
General
Further/Higher Education
Illustrations Worked examples or Exercises

Publishing Details

Publisher Cambridge University Press
Imprint Cambridge University Press
Publication Date 18 June 2009
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

This book is based on the oral life histories of about 70 men and women workers, born between the end of the last century and 1920, which are combined with sources such as police reports, documentary films and judicial documents. The interviewees recount their visions of life, of history, and of themselves; they call to memory the fascist period, and the ambivalent relationship between the Duce and the masses. A picture of resistance emerges, through such minor episodes as jokes and graffiti, wearing a red tie or whistling an old socialist tune, and through major issues such as abortions carried out in direct opposition to state propaganda. Acquiescence is also recalled, however, in the enrolment of children in fascist youth organisations or in the use of new state-controlled social services. The final chapter reconstructs an event that acquired great symbolic meaning: the eloquent and unexpected silence of the Fiat workers before Mussolini in 1939 at the inauguration of the Miraflori factory.