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

Carlo Ciccarelli () and Stefano Fenoaltea
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Stefano Fenoaltea: Universita' di Roma Tor Vergata, Dipartimento SEFEMEQ, Facolta' di Economia

No 4, Quaderni di storia economica (Economic History Working Papers) from Bank of Italy, Economic Research and International Relations Area

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 epoque; 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.

Keywords: Italy; pre-1913; regional industrialization (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: N63 N93 R11 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010-07
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