1. Why did Italians emigrate at the end of the nineteenth centu
... northern states were being ignored". The lack of manufacturing employment was not helped by the fact that many could only fill the criteria of manual labour due to high levels of illiteracy. Two-thirds of the population was illiterate and in some parts of the south the figure was nearly approaching 100 ... public sectors, which resulted in mass unemployment. Despite attempts to improve education and literacy amongst the Italian nation on behalf of governments in the 1870-90 period, unemployment could not be tackled in the short term. This was due to the fact that initially the existing a...
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