“Eravamo come schiavi”. Famiglie contadine a Mussolinia-Arborea: fonti orali e dinamiche socio-economiche
“We were as slaves”. Peasant families in Mussolinia-Arborea: oral sources and socio-economic dynamics
Abstract
Archival documents and oral testimonies illustrate the vicissitudes of the sharecropping families who arrived in Sardinia during the Fascist period, hired by the Società Bonifiche Sarde to colonise the Terralba plain, and became the assignees of their small farms after the agrarian reform of 1950. Oral sources are of the utmost importance to reconstruct the social marginalisation and isolation to which these families were forced on the company property and the meaning of the struggle they waged to overcome sharecropping subjugation and achieve social and economic emancipation, thanks to the agrarian reform.
Documenti d’archivio e testimonianze orali illustrano le vicende delle famiglie mezzadrili che, giunte in Sardegna negli anni del fascismo, ingaggiate dalla Società Bonifiche Sarde per colonizzare la piana di Terralba, divennero assegnatarie dei loro poderi dopo la riforma agraria del 1950. Sono soprattutto le fonti orali a rivelarsi essenziali per ricostruire i termini dell’emarginazione sociale e dell’isolamento a cui questi nuclei familiari furono costretti nella tenuta aziendale e il senso della lotta che essi vollero ingaggiare per superare la soggezione mezzadrile e, grazie alla riforma agraria, conquistare l’emancipazione sociale ed economica.
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