{"id":38456,"date":"2025-12-10T18:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-12-10T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swissmig.unine.ch\/?p=38456"},"modified":"2025-12-10T16:47:38","modified_gmt":"2025-12-10T15:47:38","slug":"gli-italiani-sono-qui-italian-migrant-workers-and-the-brown-boveri-cie-1946-1970","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swissmig.unine.ch\/?p=38456","title":{"rendered":"\u201cGli italiani sono qui!\u201d Italian migrant workers and the Brown, Boveri &amp; Cie., 1946-1970"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-group\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-vertical is-layout-flex wp-container-core-group-is-layout-8cf370e7 wp-block-group-is-layout-flex\">\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Author(s): Mattia Francesco Antonio Pesolillo<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/repository.graduateinstitute.ch\/record\/319826\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/repository.graduateinstitute.ch\/record\/319826<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Abstract<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>After the Second World War ended, more than a million Italians migrated to Switzerland searching for better economic opportunities. This thesis analyses the situation of Italian migrants working for the Brown Boveri &amp; Cie. (BBC), an electrical engineering company based in Baden, from 1946 until 1970. The BBC has been chosen because as the biggest enterprise in Switzerland, it employed the most Italian labourers. By looking at the company\u2019s in-house newspaper and the minutes of the BBC\u2019s board meetings, this thesis shows a gradual shift in the firm\u2019s approach towards its Italian labour force. At the outset, the Italian workers were perceived as a means to an end and were merely tolerated by their colleagues and the inhabitants of Baden. However, this changed over time and the Italians employed by the BBC were increasingly regarded as equals with the board turning into an important voice who publicly campaigned for an improvement of their situation.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Author(s): Mattia Francesco Antonio Pesolillo Source: https:\/\/repository.graduateinstitute.ch\/record\/319826<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kadence_starter_templates_imported_post":false,"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[306,176,9,446,87,175,319,676,158],"class_list":["post-38456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","tag-306","tag-economic-integration","tag-english-language","tag-enterprises","tag-history","tag-italians","tag-master-thesis","tag-trade-unions","tag-working-conditions"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swissmig.unine.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38456","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/swissmig.unine.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/swissmig.unine.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swissmig.unine.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swissmig.unine.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38456"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/swissmig.unine.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38456\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38457,"href":"https:\/\/swissmig.unine.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38456\/revisions\/38457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swissmig.unine.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swissmig.unine.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swissmig.unine.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}