Po valley rural poverty appeared as a pauperism crisis in the Risorgimento

Evidence

During the Risorgimento, the problem of the Po agricultural labourers appeared in the guise of a terrible phenomenon of pauperism. It is seen thus by the economist Tullio Martello in his History of the International , written in 1871-72, a work which must be borne in mind since it reflects the political passions and the social preoccupations of the preceding period. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 468

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Rulers blamed pauperism on the poor’s lack of work discipline.; Colonial Europeans resented pauperism surveys that exposed low-ranking officials’ own poverty — Ann Laura Stoler, Along the Archival Grain_ Epistemic…, 922
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Rulers blamed pauperism on the poor’s lack of work discipline.; Colonial Europeans resented pauperism surveys that exposed low-ranking officials’ own poverty — Ann Laura Stoler, Along the Archival Grain_ Epistemic…, 922