TY - BOOK ID - 77901017 TI - If eight hours seem too few : mobilization of women workers in the Italian rice fields PY - 1991 SN - 0585091285 9780585091280 0791404811 079140482X 1438424736 DB - UniCat KW - Women rice workers KW - Women labor union members KW - Socialism KW - Labor unions KW - Women in trade-unions KW - Labor union members KW - Rice workers KW - Women agricultural laborers KW - History KW - Women membership KW - E-books KW - History. KW - WOMEN LABOR UNION MEMBERS KW - SOCIALISM KW - BUSINESS & ECONOMICS KW - POLITICAL SCIENCE KW - Women Labor Union Members KW - Business & Economics KW - Political Science KW - Business & economics KW - Political science UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77901017 AB - This book is the first to present a vivid and accurate picture of the thousands of women who worked weeding the rice fields in northern Italy during the early part of the nineteenth century. It explores a wide range of issues including the political, economic, and social history of Italy; labor legislation; the role of the judicial system; the sexual division of labor; family structure; class conflict between the rural proletariat and the politically influential capitalist farmers; work-related diseases; internal migration of labor; and child labor.The author provides penetrating insights into the Socialist Party's efforts to wrest women workers from the influence of the Catholic Church; the history of Italian feminism and the campaign for the vote; and finally, the workers' opposition to Italy's entrance into World War I. She analyzes the weeders' relations with labor organizers; their desire to preserve their autonomy; and their decisions regarding labor actions; and she highlights similarities between the weeders' experiences and those of other women workers and labor organizers in Europe and the U. S.. ER -