Title: Italy: The tormented rise of organizational capabilities between government and families
Abstract: Italy was the first country in southern Europe to have reached a stable stage of industrialization, a remarkable outcome given the false leaps and the failures of other Mediterranean nations. Italy started to go further than what a historian defined as “a first coat of industrial paint” in the 1880s. In that decade, in addition to the traditional industries such as food and textiles, others such as metallurgy and chemical and mechanical productions become “visible.” Alexander Gerschenkron has calculated that by 1887, starting from a base of 100 in 1881, the production of the textile sector is equal to 136, food equal to 106, metallurgy is 414, mechanics equals 185, and chemicals have reached 267.
Publication Year: 1997
Publication Date: 1997-07-13
Language: en
Type: book-chapter
Indexed In: ['crossref']
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