I consorzi di bonifica riuniti in Este tra il 1904 e il 1940

ABSTRACT This research PhD in Economic History, on "The Land Reclamation Consortia Gathered in Este between 1904 and 1940, offers the knowledge of remediation activities conducted in these areas which, during the period extending to about 50,000 hectares , enclosing a large part of the territory to be reclaimed in the province of Padua. In the first analysis was conducted to deepen the general framework of the Italian legislation on reclamation and grading through the official publications of the competent ministries, the land reclamation in the lowlands Padua, Unit 1940. Therefore, research has proceeded with the analysis of the historical, economic and social areas of the consortium brings together, in addition, detailed analysis of the historical documents of the consortium, on records and resolutions of the representations Consortium, budgets Consortium The documents for appropriations for the reclamation, the costs for reclamation and maintenance in small and large consortia of companies, in addition to the checks on the works themselves and the sums paid. The excursion, above, has led to the deepening of content, comparative and methodological starting the research itself, to knowledge, depth of life and the consortium of economic and social reality in which the Company was part of the consortium brings together. Indeed, from this analysis, shows attention to the rules promulgated by the legislature, the mode of application of such laws, the economic difficulties, social and structural areas that are often the consortium had to submit, in addition, to emerge, significantly The difficulties encountered in these activities, aspirations and practical life, the Company's employees and residents of the same territory, providing a social, economic and political national and a cross-section of economic, social and territorial of great interest and great respect for the economic history of the period. Those documents tying so ambivalent, the area in question, activities, life inside the consortium and external social and economic territories included in the Company, in fact, documents are highlighted, and the earnings figures for reclamation, both the figures for the salaries of employees consortium of farmers and laborers who worked on construction sites, leading to say, rightly, that the period of maximum attention to the phenomenon of the implementation of reclamation, has been to lies precisely between the end of World War I and 1938, becoming a time of economic and social modernization, national, regional and territorial.