Made in Italy By Enrico Ghezzi 9781904563495 (Hardback)

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Made in Italy : Trolley Books : 9781904563495 : 190456349X : 01 Jan 2006 : Five young Italian photographers document the changes in their country, as around them economic shifts in production systems have affected their society and its workers. Published in both English and Italian, the photographs are accompanied with texts by renowned Italian philosophers and writers. Less than a generation after the death of Garibaldi, Italy's largest trade union, the CGIL, was formed in 1906. The union's birth epitomised what the fledgling nation's culture and credos were to represent in the 20th century, encapsulating a traditional working class, the inevitable bourgeoisie, capitalists and, later, fervent communists. Now, almost 100 years later, Italy has changed fundamentally. The demographic differences so starkly apparent at the time of the CGIL's formation have simply faded away, like a vibrant watercolour exposed to the sun. They have been replaced by a colourless homogeneity, a vagueness o

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