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Communities of Labor:

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TLpq2405321134

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Communities of Labor:

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[Thesis]

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Carter, James

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Adriano Olivetti and the Humanization of Industrial Society

Subsequent Statement of Responsibility

Bertellini, Giorgio

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University of Michigan

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2020

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228

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Ph.D.

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University of Michigan

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2020

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Communities of Labor: Adriano Olivetti and the Humanization of Industrial Society translates the vast and expanding historiography on the Olivetti company from Italian to English and simultaneously critiques it along five different lines. The Italian historiography has developed what the dissertation calls a "standard Olivetti narrative," which paints company president Adriano Olivetti (1901-1960) as a visionary entrepreneur who opposed the Fascist regime, created tens of thousands of jobs, developed Italian modernity in the South and nourished the arts. While acknowledging these facts, the dissertation complicates them with new archival documentation that reveals the religious foundations of the Olivetti project, its ties with Fascism, its practice of courting reluctant intellectuals, the paternalism of its approach to the South and the obscurity of its transnational marketing strategies. This critique is held together by the theory of "communities of labor," which is extrapolated from the writings of Adriano Olivetti and describes the company's method of cultivating a modern interclass concrete utopia through the humanization of industrial society. The "communities of labor" theory insists that community has historically been built upon practices of labor, and it looks ahead to the late twentieth century transition from Fordism to post-Fordism, raising new questions about the construction of community in the age of neoliberal globalization, capitalist exploitation, automation, technological unemployment and the exportation of labor to cheaper markets.

Adriano Olivetti

Community

History

Industrial culture

Labor

Olivetti

Bertellini, Giorgio

Carter, James

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