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Tobacco workers of San Giustino and the Historical and Scientific Museum of Tobacco.
MThe Historical and Scientific Museum of Tobacco in San Giustino, preserves the cultural, social and economic heritage derived from the production of tobacco. .
Purposes of the Museum, whose building was purchased by the City of San Giustino, are the preparation of exhibitions and the organization of conferences and training courses, for the knowledge and re-evaluation of this product and the work of those working in this industry, also trough the research for a better quality of manufacturing. Recently opened, the space was realised thanks to the initiative of the homonymous Foundation, established in 1997 with the collaboration between the parties involved in the tobacco production and the Cities of Alta Valtiberina, for both of which this cultivation has influenced and still influences the everyday life..
As a matter of fact, for the area of Alta Valtiberina, the tobacco cultivation is a tradition which needs to be conveyed and spread, because here tobacco was imported for the first time in the XVIth century and its farming is also closely tied to the fame of the small former Republic of Cospaia..
The tobacco industry was almost exclusively reserved to women because of their greater dexterity, precision and attention to the colour, but also because at the same qualification, the wage rates applied to women were lower by more than 20% compared to those of men..
After the Second World War, at least until the early fifties, the low female unionization contributed to the great female occupation in the tobacco industry: sharecropper and labourer families guaranteed low-cost female labour..
The household income in the summer was given by the work of the entire family unit in the fields, dedicated to the transplantation and harvesting of tobacco, and in winter by the work of women in the tobacco factories and men employed in operations for drying and preparing of the seedbeds and the fields for the next season..
Women employed in the tobacco industry also contributed to the development of the social system, struggling for their rights and receiving the first benefits for their work by getting the first kindergartens for their children, medical care at work, and better conditions on the work site.
Purposes of the Museum, whose building was purchased by the City of San Giustino, are the preparation of exhibitions and the organization of conferences and training courses, for the knowledge and re-evaluation of this product and the work of those working in this industry, also trough the research for a better quality of manufacturing. Recently opened, the space was realised thanks to the initiative of the homonymous Foundation, established in 1997 with the collaboration between the parties involved in the tobacco production and the Cities of Alta Valtiberina, for both of which this cultivation has influenced and still influences the everyday life..
As a matter of fact, for the area of Alta Valtiberina, the tobacco cultivation is a tradition which needs to be conveyed and spread, because here tobacco was imported for the first time in the XVIth century and its farming is also closely tied to the fame of the small former Republic of Cospaia..
The tobacco industry was almost exclusively reserved to women because of their greater dexterity, precision and attention to the colour, but also because at the same qualification, the wage rates applied to women were lower by more than 20% compared to those of men..
After the Second World War, at least until the early fifties, the low female unionization contributed to the great female occupation in the tobacco industry: sharecropper and labourer families guaranteed low-cost female labour..
The household income in the summer was given by the work of the entire family unit in the fields, dedicated to the transplantation and harvesting of tobacco, and in winter by the work of women in the tobacco factories and men employed in operations for drying and preparing of the seedbeds and the fields for the next season..
Women employed in the tobacco industry also contributed to the development of the social system, struggling for their rights and receiving the first benefits for their work by getting the first kindergartens for their children, medical care at work, and better conditions on the work site.