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Through the Magnifying Glass: Provincial Aspects of Industrial Growth in Post-Unification Italy

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  • Carlo Ciccarelli

    (Università di Roma Tor Vergata, Dipartimento SEFEMEQ, Facoltà di Economia)

  • Stefano Fenoaltea

    (Università di Roma Tor Vergata, Dipartimento SEFEMEQ, Facoltà di Economia)

Abstract

In post-Unification Italy industrialization was ever sharply sub-regional. Initially industry was largely artisanal, and located in the former political capitals; factory industry was instead attracted by the waterfalls of the subalpine Northwest. From the 1880s, as modernization accelerated, industry concentrated: in the Lombard and Piedmontese subalpine provinces with the late-nineteenth-century boom in (protected) textiles, then particularly in Turin and Milan with the engineering boom, and novel energy-transmission, of the belle époque; and in Liguria's Genoa, which captured (subsidized) civil and naval shipbuilding. The only significant diffusion came as (newly protected) beet-sugar-extraction spread throughout Emilia.

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  • Carlo Ciccarelli & Stefano Fenoaltea, 2010. "Through the Magnifying Glass: Provincial Aspects of Industrial Growth in Post-Unification Italy," Quaderni di storia economica (Economic History Working Papers) 04, Bank of Italy, Economic Research and International Relations Area.
    • Handle: RePEc:bdi:workqs:qse_04
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    Keywords

    Italy; pre-1913; regional industrialization;
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    JEL classification:

    • N63 - Economic History - - Manufacturing and Construction - - - Europe: Pre-1913
    • N93 - Economic History - - Regional and Urban History - - - Europe: Pre-1913
    • R11 - Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics - - General Regional Economics - - - Regional Economic Activity: Growth, Development, Environmental Issues, and Changes

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