Story of My People Starting from his family’s textile factory in Prato, Tuscany, Edoardo Nesi examines the recent shifts in Italy’s manufacturing industry. How this could have happened? Nesi asks, and what are the wider repercussions of
| TITLE | : | Story of My People |
| AUTHOR | : | |
| RATING | : | 4.77 (665 Votes) |
| ASIN | : | 1590515544 |
| FORMAT TYPE | : | Hardcover |
| NUMBER of PAGES | : | 163 Pages |
| PUBLISH DATE | : | 2013-05-07 |
| GENRE | : |
Winner of the 2011 Strega Prize, this blend of essay, social criticism, and memoir is a striking portrait of the effects of globalization on Italy’s declining economy. Starting from his family’s textile factory in Prato, Tuscany, Edoardo Nesi examines the recent shifts in Italy’s manufacturing industry. Only one generation ago, Prato was a thriving industrial center that prided itself on craftsmanship and quality. But during the last decade, cheaply made goods—produced overseas or in Italy by poorly paid immigrants—saturated the market, making it impossible for Italian companies to keep up. In 2004 his family was forced to sell the textile factory. How this could have happened? Nesi asks, and what are the wider repercussions of losing businesses like his family’s, especially for Italian culture? Story of My People is a denouncem
EDITORIAL :
"Edoardo Nesi has written a short memoir of great charm, for all its sadness a pleasure to read… Mr. Nesi’s sense of loss will touch hearts much farther afield, wherever the West’s world-class industries have fallen to free trade and the Internet.”—The New York Times“This unique book—part memoir, part argument for the reformation of the global financial system—tumbles out of itself on the page, and reading it was an equally propulsive experience. It rhapsodizes and slaps its chest in true Italian style, makes frequent allusions with a disarming bluntness (to Machiavelli, to Richard Ford, to Paul Newman movies), and always has something to say. I finished and instantly went back to re-read certain pages.” —John Jeremiah Sullivan, author of Pulphead and writer for the New York Times Magazine
REVIEW :
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