Women and Work in the North-Eastern Adriatic

Postwar Transitions
Erscheinungsjahr 2025
ISBN: 978-963-386-751-8
Verlag: Amsterdam University Press

Buch, Englisch, 272 Seiten, Format (B × H): 159 mm x 237 mm

Reihe: Work and Labor – Transdisciplinary Studies for the 21st Century - CEU 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 international research project carried out with the support of the European Research Council.

The seven studies in the book represent a cross-section of specific professional groups of women. The spectrum ranges from female teachers, clerks, tobacco and textile workers to intellectual, artistic or entrepreneurial activities of women. Although “gender” is a central category of analysis in the book, the aspect of representativeness was also observed in relation to other social factors such as race, class, generations, educational and religious background, etc. The main question of the study was the extent to which new state affiliations, geopolitical boundaries, and the establishment of new political regimes affected the women's labor market in the three postwar constellations.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Verginella, Marta

Strle, Urska

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftsgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Wirtschaftsgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte Europäische Regional- & Stadtgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

Strle, Urska
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.

Verginella, Marta
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".