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Structure and Action in the Making of Milan's Working Class

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 January 2016

Louise A. Tilly
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Andrea Costa, a contemporary observer and sometime participant in Italian socialist politics, spoke in 1886 in defense of the Lombardy-based Partito operaio, whose leaders had been arrested and its newspaper muzzled. He offered a classic Marxist interpretation of the party's emergence as a “natural product of… our economic and social conditions … the concentration of the means of production in few hands, distancing the worker more and more from his tools … and likewise a product of our political conditions … electoral reform, by means of which the working class … can affirm itself as a class apart.” Further, this party had been founded in Milan, “where modern industry has penetrated more than elsewhere,” and closely following the expansion of the suffrage in 1881 (Italy 1886: 419).

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Special Section: Class Formation and Political Mobilization in Turn-of-the-Century Milan
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Social Science History , Volume 19 , Issue 2 , Summer 1995 , pp. 243 - 259
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Copyright © Social Science History Association 1995 

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