Mario Grassi is a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Padua, Italy, in collaboration with Yale University, the Université Lumière Lyon 2, and the Como Silk Museum. His current research, in addition to the socio-economic history of the silk industry, focuses on labour history, the history of migration, gender, violence, and material culture.

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• Introduction.- 2. The Italian Silk Road and the Piedmontese Backwardness.- 3. Techniques and Technologies.- 4. State and the Guilds.- 5. Mercantile Capitalism.- 6. Silk Work and Silk Workers.- 7. A City at the Service of Industry.- 8. External Pressures.- 9. Broken Dreams.

Mario Grassi is a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Padua, Italy, in collaboration with Yale University, the Université Lumière Lyon 2, and the Como Silk Museum. His current research, in addition to the socio-economic history of the silk industry, focuses on labour history, the history of migration, gender, violence, and material culture.

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• Introduction.- 2. The Italian Silk Road and the Piedmontese Backwardness.- 3. Techniques and Technologies.- 4. State and the Guilds.- 5. Mercantile Capitalism.- 6. Silk Work and Silk Workers.- 7. A City at the Service of Industry.- 8. External Pressures.- 9. Broken Dreams.