Italian Workers of the World
Subtitle: Labor Migration and the Formation of Multiethnic States (Statue of Liberty Ellis Island)
Contributors: Donna R. Gabaccia (Editor); Fraser Ottanelli (Editor)
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: July 31, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 248
ISBN-13: 9780252026591
Subjects: Multicultural studies; Work & labour; Emigration And Immigration; Industrial And Labor Relations; Political Science; Politics / Current Events; Politics/International Relations; Italy; Emigration & Immigration; Labor & Industrial Relations - General; Political Ideologies - Nationalism; History / Modern / 20th Century; Labor; Foreign countries; Italians; Labor movement; Nationalism; Pluralism (Social sciences)
First sentence: MIGRATIONS OF humble laborers from the Italian Peninsula and the nearby island of Sicily were already rising when a nationalist movement-called the Risorgimento-emerged in Italy to demand a united and independent state for a nation of "Italians."