Politics and Rhetoric of Italian State Steel Privatisation: A Gramscian Analysis

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Edoardo Mollona (University of Bologna, Italy) Luca Pareschi (University of Bologna, Italy)

Politics and Rhetoric of Italian State Steel Privatisation

A Gramscian Analysis

Edoardo Mollona (University of Bologna, Italy), Luca Pareschi (University of Bologna, Italy)

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English

Routledge
18 May 2022

Economic theory & philosophy; Political economy; Economic history; Iron, steel & metals industries; Civil service & public sector

Series: Routledge International Studies in Business History

The globally spreading privatisation wave that occurred in the 1990s deeply changed the structure of economic institutions worldwide. This turmoil overturned not only economic institutions, but shared cultural and societal institutions as well.

This book is the result of an investigation into the history of the privatisation of the steel industry in Italy, completed between 1994 and 1995. It explores the history of the Italian steel industry by looking at the interplay of local intertwined interests, political relations, and ideological formations that characterised an idiosyncratic hegemonic historical bloc. Rather than stigmatising this pattern as the legacy of a dysfunctional provincialism, the authors mobilise Gramsci’s theory of hegemony to explain how the Italian privatisation process unfolded to accommodate economic pressures, political interests, and ideological constraints of a hegemonic social group, or aggregation of social groups. Thus, in reconstructing the privatisation of Italian steel, this book proposes a hegemony theory of privatisation and, more generally, describes a model that explains how political and cultural dynamics give rise to idiosyncratic local variations in globally spreading policies.

It will be of interest to researchers, academics, and students in the fields of business history, economics, sociology, and political science.

By: Edoardo Mollona (University of Bologna Italy), Luca Pareschi (University of Bologna, Italy)
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm,
Weight: 380g
ISBN: 9781138344433
ISBN 10: 1138344435
Series: Routledge International Studies in Business History
Pages: 200
Publication Date: 18 May 2022
Audience: College/higher education , Primary
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

1. Introduction 2. Institutional Theory 3. Gramscian Theory on Hegemony 4. Methodology 5. Latent Meaning Spaces 6. Fragmentation of the Historical Bloc 7. Settlement of the Historical Bloc 8. Stabilisation 9. Conclusion

"Edoardo Mollona is full professor of business ethics and corporate strategy in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Bologna, Italy. Luca Pareschi is Assistant Professor at ""Tor Vergata"", University of Rome, Italy."