The Political Economy of Shopkeeping in Milan, 1886 1922
Morris, Jonathan / Jonathan, Morris / Roper, Lyndal
From the mid 1880s a shopkeeper movement developed in Milan, centred around a shopkeeper newspaper, a federation of shopkeeper trade associations, and a shopkeeper bank. In 1904 shopkeeper representatives initiated a sequence of events that led to the fall of the first radical-socialist administration within the city. The author explains these events with reference to the business of shopkeeping itself. He analyses the trades, techniques, tax ...