This work examines the presence of foreign labour in the port of Genoa in the period between the early modern age and the 1830s, focusing on manual transport sector, where the phenomenon was most evident. The aim is to understand first of all the mechanisms that operated both on the demand side, determining the need to recruit workforce outside the city context, and on the supply side, favouring the emigration of unskilled workers who settled more or less permanently in the city. We shall also analyse the peculiarities of their organisational structure, the privileges obtained from the city authorities, the principles of mutual assistance and solidarity that characterised them, their integration into the city’s social fabric, but also their conflictual relations with other categories of dockworkers.
Foreign Labor in the Port of Genoa: Privileges, Integration and Conflicts (15th–19th Centuries)
Piccinno L.
2024-01-01
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This work examines the presence of foreign labour in the port of Genoa in the period between the early modern age and the 1830s, focusing on manual transport sector, where the phenomenon was most evident. The aim is to understand first of all the mechanisms that operated both on the demand side, determining the need to recruit workforce outside the city context, and on the supply side, favouring the emigration of unskilled workers who settled more or less permanently in the city. We shall also analyse the peculiarities of their organisational structure, the privileges obtained from the city authorities, the principles of mutual assistance and solidarity that characterised them, their integration into the city’s social fabric, but also their conflictual relations with other categories of dockworkers.File | Dimensione | Formato | |
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