The end of the City of Gold? : industry and economic crisis in an Italian jewellery town / by Michele Filippo Fontefrancesco.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fontefrancesco, Michele Filippo.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Precious stones.

Jewelry trade--Economic aspects--Italy--Valenza.

Jewelry trade.

Global Financial Crisis, 2008-2009.

Jewelry trade--Economic aspects--Italy.

Valenza (Italy)--Economic conditions--21st century.

Valenza (Italy).

Italy--Economic conditions--21st century.

Italy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (278 pages) : illustrations, maps

Edition:

1.

Place of Publication:

Newcastle upon Tyne, UK : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

How does Europeas economic crisis affect the ways in which industry and entrepreneurship are experienced on a grassroots level? The book offers an answer to this question by exploring the Italian jewellery town of Valenza and the downturn of its principal industry. Through the experiences of its inhabitants, the study investigates the social role that jewellery production had in Valenza and provides an ethnographic account of the crisis the city endures. This analysis delves into the relationship between a community and its industry in order to understand the social and cultural challenges Italy and Europe will face in the future. -

Contents:

part I. The "Città dell'Oro"

part II. 'La Crisi'.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed October 31, 2013).

ISBN:

1-4438-5278-3

OCLC:

868961679