Memory’s WayFifty Years of Pirelli and More
Gavino Manca has spent his working life with the Pirelli group, holding important posts in the industrial world. In this book he takes the reader along a road of rediscovery and thoughtful analysis of a season of change, growth and development of Italian private enterprise which is not to be equalled: from the report of the Pirelli commission, an outstanding document of industrial culture, to international growth; from the extreme trade union conflicts to the transformation of production organisation; from the tragic shadow of terrorism (of which Manca was a victim) to the untiring work of research and development of new materials, new products and new markets, up to the redevelopment of the urban territory redesigned by the Bicocca Project.
“Through Manca’s writing the reader is led along a path which brings him or her to touch on the crucial nodes of our business, civil and cultural history. Never has industry been so pivotal as in the years of the life of the author, since from it a system of relationships branched off which was decisive in many areas of the public and civil sphere of the country” (Giuseppe Berta).
Sul filo della memoria. Cinquanta anni di Pirelli e dintorni
Gavino Manca, Egea, 2005
Gavino Manca has spent his working life with the Pirelli group, holding important posts in the industrial world. In this book he takes the reader along a road of rediscovery and thoughtful analysis of a season of change, growth and development of Italian private enterprise which is not to be equalled: from the report of the Pirelli commission, an outstanding document of industrial culture, to international growth; from the extreme trade union conflicts to the transformation of production organisation; from the tragic shadow of terrorism (of which Manca was a victim) to the untiring work of research and development of new materials, new products and new markets, up to the redevelopment of the urban territory redesigned by the Bicocca Project.
“Through Manca’s writing the reader is led along a path which brings him or her to touch on the crucial nodes of our business, civil and cultural history. Never has industry been so pivotal as in the years of the life of the author, since from it a system of relationships branched off which was decisive in many areas of the public and civil sphere of the country” (Giuseppe Berta).
Sul filo della memoria. Cinquanta anni di Pirelli e dintorni
Gavino Manca, Egea, 2005