Women and Work in the North-Eastern Adriatic

Marta Verginella is a full professor at the Department of History at the University of Ljubljana and was the project leader of the ERC project "EIRENE: Post-War Transitions in Gendered Perspective: The Case of North-Eastern Adriatic Region". Urška Strle was a full-time member of the EIRENE research group. She currently works at the Koper Scientific Research Centre as the researcher for the ERC project OPEN BORDERS, and at the Scientific Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts. 

A Note on Toponymy
List of Abbreviations
List of Figures and Tables

Introduction

Women’s Labor in the North-Eastern Adriatic during the Postwar Transitions of the 20th Century
Marta Verginella

PART I: PEDAGOGICAL AND ADMINISTRATIVE LABOR

Female Teachers—The Ferrywomen of Transitional Education
Marta Verginella

The Working Conditions of Female Teachers in the Slovene Schools in Trieste and Gorizia in the First Years of the Allied Military Government
Gorazd Bajc

Women Clerks in Transition after World War I in the Kingdom of Italy and Yugoslavia: Two Case Studies from Trieste and Ljubljana

Ana Cergol Paradiž, Matteo Perissinotto, and Irena Selišnik

PART II: INTELLECTUAL AND ARTISTIC LABOR

Intellectual Labor: Gender, Emotions, and Circumstances during the Postwar Transitions
Manca G. Renko

A Soul with Hands: Anita Pittoni, Artist and Entrepreneur
Teresa Bertilotti

PART III: INDUSTRIAL LABOR

Tobacco Workers between Marginalization and Opportunities: A Regional Perspective
Urška Strle and Dagmar Wernitznig

Slovene Female Textile Workers and Their Alternative Employment: A Case Study in Komen
Petra Testen Koren

Bibliography
Chapter Abstracts
List of Contributors
Index