Biography of an Industrial Town

Part I. Biography of a Town

1. Introduction: Speaking, Writing, and Remembering
Alessandro Portelli

2. The Red and the Black: Rebels, Patriots, and Outlaws
Alessandro Portelli

3. How Green Was My Valley: Feudal Landlords and Struggling Peasants
Alessandro Portelli

4. How Steel Was Tempered: The Making of a Working Class
Alessandro Portelli

5. Rebels: Socialists, Anarchists, and the Subversive Tradition
Alessandro Portelli

6. The Iron Heel, or, We Didn’t Have Any Trouble: The Coming of Fascism
Alessandro Portelli

7. Let Us Now Praise Famous Men: Surviving and Resisting Fascism
Alessandro Portelli

8. Apocalypse Now: War, Hunger, and Mass Destruction
Alessandro Portelli

9. Red Is the Color: The Gramsci Brigade and the Resistance
Alessandro Portelli

10. The Best of Times, the Worst of Times: Economic Boom and Industrial Crisis
Alessandro Portelli

11. Staying Alive: The Rise of Alternative Cultures
Alessandro Portelli

Part II. Specialty Steel

12. David and Goliath: The Town, the Factory, and the Strike
Alessandro Portelli

13. The Workers and the World: Terni Steel in the Age of Globalization
Alessandro Portelli

14. The Empire Strikes Back: The Town, the Factory, the Strike—Reprise
Alessandro Portelli

15. A Tale of Two Cities: Death, Survival, and Powerlessness in the Neo-Liberal Age
Alessandro Portelli

16. Epilogue: Working-class Sublime
Alessandro Portelli

Keywords: History, Oral History, History of Italy, Labor History, Cultural History, European Politics