Per un'antropologia storica della genesi di un distretto industriale. Le fonti orali, i post-mezzadri e la piccola impresa a Poggibonsi

All along the Fifities and Sixties of XXth Century, the area of Poggibonsi - once a little town in Central Italy - has developed widely from a share-cropping agriculture to a petty industries economy. In this article such transformation is analyzed with an actor-oriented perspective, especially that of the entrepreneurs. Based on oral and archival sources, I focus on the moment of the industrial kick off, considering that one historical-anthropological perspective can contributes with new insights to the socio-economical debate on the embeddedness of local society, family, industrial districts and political institutions. What emerges from the treatment of the oral material is that: the birth of the new industries is basically a urban-originated process, that rely on a previously existent technical-scape; the main social characteristic of the new enterprises is not kinship but friendship; belonging to the same new generation of young adults is a cohesive factor in terms of cooperation inside the same enterprise and among enterprises even in the same business sector.