Women at Work in Italy (1750–1950)

Manuela Mosca is a full professor of the history of economic thought at the University of Salento (Lecce, Italy). Her main research interests are on Italian marginalism, on the history of monopoly power, and on women and economics in the historical perspective.

• Chapter 1. Italian women of the past: their economic culture and actions (Manuela Mosca).- Part I. Women in business.- Chapter 2. Isabella De Mari Doria, a female investor and gambler in the Genoese aristocracy (Antonio Iodice).- Chapter 3. Women and business: fresh evidence from the probate records of Milan (1862-1900) (Stefania Licini).- Chapter 4. Female entrepreneurs and economic development in Capri (1900-1960). A case study: La Parisienne (Rossella Del Prete).- Part II. Women in the labour market.- Chapter 5. From the edge to the heart: female employment in 19th century Italy (Giuliana Freschi).- Chapter 6. Labour market segregation: female teachers in Southern Italy (1861-1937) (Vittoria Ferrandino).- Chapter 7. Incomes and employment of Italian women (1900-1950) (Giacomo Gabbuti).- Part III. Women in education.- Chapter 8. Aurelia Josz, educational entrepreneur, and her school of agriculture for girls (Giandomenica Becchio).- Chapter 9. Female students and graduates in business and economics in Turin (1906-1940) (Laura Giartosio).- Chapter 10. Academic research and university careers of women economists during the fascist regime (Letizia Pagliai).- Part IV. Women in politics. Chapter 11. Anna Kuliscioff’s labour economics (Luca Michelini).- Chapter 12. Margherita Grassini Sarfatti, the economic thought of the Jewish woman who popularized fascism (Francesco Poggi).- Chapter 13. In the name of equality. Women’s action to shape the right to work in the Italian Constituent Assembly (Claudia Rotondi).