Il Progetto Profili Biografici di Sindacaliste in Emilia Romagna nel periodo 1880-1980, promosso dalla Fondazione Argentina Bonetti Altobelli insieme al Dipartimento Storia Culture e Civiltà dell’Università di Bologna, sarà presentato nel corso della prima Conferenza dell’European Labour History Network, che si terrà a Torino presso il Campus Luigi Einaudi dell’Università di Torino dal 14 al 16 dicembre 2015.
Anna Salfi, Presidente della Fondazione A.B. Altobelli, e Fiorenza Tarozzi, Presidente del Comitato Scientifico della Fondazione, presenteranno il progetto nell’ambito delle attività del gruppo di lavoro “Women and Trade Unions in Europe”, con una relazione dal titolo: Gendering the history and memory of Italian trade unions through biography, il 15 dicembre pomeriggio.
Scrivono nell’abstract della loro relazione: “The paper investigates how the study and dissemination of the female biographies of trade unionists can, on the one hand, influence the collective memory of the trade union itself and, on the other, the role attributed to women within labour movement’s historiography, which until recently in Italy has only acknowledged a few top-level female trade unionists.
The main findings of the project “Biographies of female trade unionists in Emilia-Romagna (1880-1980)”, will allow us to explore the potential of extensive collaborative project in reconstructing the level, form and extent of women’s activism within the trade unions in different historical periods. Moreover, the paper will show the possible role played by female trade unionists themselves as active agents of memory as well as the intersection between historical works and the memory process in writing the biographies of female trade unionists in the 20th century.
By confronting the biographies of the top-level female trade unionists with the unknown biographies of local female trade unionists, who formed the backbone of the organization in the most unionized Region of Italy (Emilia-Romagna), the paper will try to understand the different paths experienced by female trade unionists over time”.
Il programma completo dell’evento, le modalità di partecipazione e le informazioni logistiche sono disponibili al sito www.storialavoro.it/elhn-turin.