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handicraft were replaced by a migration founded mainly on occupations
linked to the construction industry (Fornasin 1998b). The standardisation
of these migration patterns in the entire territory had also repercussions on
the integrated peasant economy.

Table 4.3 illustrates the situation of the activities for the village-models
in the mountains as in the second half of the 19th century.

Table 4.3: Integrated peasant economy in two mountain contexts from a historical perspec-
tive

Sector Activity Mountain-1 Mountain-2
Primary Agricultural specialisation N N
Intensification of cultivation Y Y
Secondary Wage day-labour in agriculture Y Y
Extension/intensification of breeding Y Y
Tertiary Intensification of forest exploitation Y Y
Tot Extension of cultivated land Y Y
Difference Transformation of primary resources/products Y Y
Rural crafts N N
Domestic putting-out system N N
‘Centred’ industries N N
Migrant/mobile craftsmen Y Y
Wage labour in industrial sector N N
Services in the field of long and medium distance
trade YY
Transport of other people’s products and goods
on short to medium distance YY
Trafficking with own products and goods on short
to medium distance YY
Peddling
Smuggling NN
NN
10 10
-2 -4

Note: Mountain 1, ‘Pedlar model;’ Mountain 2, ‘Handicraft model.’
In the second half of the 19th century the environmental situation for

the integrated peasant economy progressively deteriorated in both vil-
lage-models: a series of economic activities which had characterised the

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