ABSTRACT
Rome is Italy's third most industrialised city in terms of the numbers of people employed. Along with its roles as a political, administrative, tourist and ecclesiastical city, Rome has become an industrial one. Yet the development of the Roman industrial sector is relatively recent. In fact, Rome and its surrounding areas did not participate in the process of industrialisation of the last decades of the 1800s and the first decades of the 1900s, which took place in some parts of Italy. Even in the inter-war years (1920-40) this area was only marginally affected by industrial growth. 1 Rome, 'the Holy City', before unification, and the 'Capital' after, had always based its economy on agriculture, that of mixed grazing, from modem times onwards?
