1st Edition
Women and Work in the North-Eastern Adriatic Postwar Transitions
272 Pages
by
Central European University Press
The volume offers a comparative and transnational exploration of women's work in the twentieth century, concentrating especially on the turbulent periods after both World Wars and the Yugoslav wars in the 1990s. The spatial focus of the analysis is the northeastern Adriatic region, which includes the border areas of Italy and Austria, Croatia, and Slovenia. The study is one of the results of an... Read more
A Note on Toponymy, List of Abbreviations, List of Figures and Tables, Introduction Women's Labor in the North-Eastern Adriatic during the Postwar Transitions of the 20th Century - Marta Verginella, PART I: PEDAGOGICAL AND ADMINISTRATIVE LABOR Female Teachers—The Ferrywomen of Transitional Education - Marta Verginella The Working Conditions of Female Teachers in the Slovene Schools in Trieste and Gorizia in the First Years of the Allied Military Government - Gorazd Bajc Women Clerks in Transition after World War I in the Kingdom of Italy and Yugoslavia: Two Case Studies from Trieste and Ljubljana - Ana Cergol Paradi., Matteo Perissinotto, and Irena Seli.nik, PART II: INTELLECTUAL AND ARTISTIC LABOR Intellectual Labor: Gender, Emotions, and Circumstances during the Postwar Transitions - Manca G. Renko A Soul with Hands: Anita Pittoni, Artist and Entrepreneur - Teresa Bertilotti ,PART III: INDUSTRIAL LABOR Tobacco Workers between Marginalization and Opportunities: A Regional Perspective - Urska Strle and Dagmar Wernitznig Slovene Female Textile Workers and Their Alternative Employment: A Case Study in Komen - Petra Testen Koren, Bibliography, Chapter Abstracts, List of Contributors, Index
Biography
Marta Verginella is a full professor at the Department of History at the University of Ljubljana and was the project leader of the ERC project EIRENE: Post-War Transitions in Gendered Perspective: The Case of North-Eastern Adriatic Region.
Urska Strle was a full-time member of the EIRENE research group. She currently works at the Koper Scientific Research Centre as the researcher for the ERC project OPEN BORDERS, and at the Scientific Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts.
