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Articles for DWF
Narrating and speaking of self. Oral sources, 1982, n. 22. Suppl.,
pp. 119-127
The author illustrates the political and professional itinerary guiding her research on women workers of the Modena Tobacco Manufactory from the end of the 19th century to the second world war, during which the use of "warm sources", that is to say interviews and life stories, was prominent. The methodological problems this procedure entails are here highlighted: the researcher must demand of herself to take the double stance of great participation on one side and critical distance on the other.
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Books reviewed by DWF
NAVA Paola, La fabbrica dell'emancipazione. Operaie della Manifattura Tabacchi
di Modena: storie di vita e di lavoro, Roma, Utopia, 1986
rev. by Annarita Buttafuoco, 1986, n. 2, pp. 142-144