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The Library Cesare Pozzo was founded in Milan in 1977 but the idea of creating a library connected to the Mutual Benefit Society has its roots at the end of 1800.

Founded on 1st May 1877, from the beginning the Mutual Benefit Society among Machinists and Stokers in Northern Italy Railways collected books and publications on transport technology, on the mutual and syndical movement, with the purpose to develop and promote the professional knowledge of its members.

Most of these materials were dispersed first with the occupation of the seat by the army during the riots of 1898 and then with the commissioner of the Mutual Benefit Society imposed by fascism in 1928.

Among those early texts, however, something has been saved. For example, the Atlas of Steam engines and railways by Augusto Cavallero (1870) that contains the layout of the first Milan Central Station, opened in 1864 and demolished in the 30s, or 20 years of railway life. History of the organization of Italian Machinists and Stokers by Cesare Pozzo published posthumously in 1899. In addition of course to the statutes, records and reports of administration of the Mutual Benefit Society or documents on the construction of the House of Railwaymen in Via S. Gregorio in Milan.

The Library retains the historical records of the Mutual Benefit Society (1880-1996) (http://www.lombardiabeniculturali.it/archivi/complessi-archivistici/MIBA01A0DE/) and the archives of the Italian Union of Railwaymen (1949 -1980). It also has about 15,000 volumes and 90 periodicals and more than 300 theses. The books are divided into three main areas:

Policy, Economics, History and Technique of transport, in particular railways.

Transport Workers’ Movement and Trade Union Movement.

Mutuality and Cooperation

The three main areas are flanked by a large section of consultation (history, politics, economics, sociology) and a section of books on the Resistance during the Second World War.

 

OPENING HOURS

Monday-Friday from 10:00 to 12:20

We inform you that access to the Library is allowed only by appointment.

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The Foundation Cesare Pozzo for Mutuality and the Library of Transport and Mutuality Cesare Pozzo are based in Milan, in Via San Gregorio 48, in the historic House of Railwaymen.

Phone: (+39) 02.66726.387 - (+39) 02.66726.294


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How to reach us by public transport

We are 300 meters from Stazione Centrale.

MM2 subway (Green Line) : stop Centrale Fs
MM3 subway (Yellow Line) : stop Repubblica
Passante ferroviario (Railway link underground): stop Repubblica
Tram 2 - 9 - 29 - 33: stop Filzi/Pirelli
Tram 1 - 5: stop Cincinnato

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Council
Stefano Maggi, President
Eleonora Belloni, Vice President
Salvatore Bordonaro, Secretary

Auditor
Matteo Senna

Scientific Commitee
Stefano Maggi, President
Michela Minesso
Massimiliano Paniga
Alessandro Tuzza

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The Foundation for Mutuality Cesare Pozzo

The Foundation Cesare Pozzo for Mutuality was created in 2008 by the Mutual Benefit Society Cesare Pozzo, the largest Italian Society of mutuality in the field of integrative health care, with more than 130 years of experience.

The Mutual Benefit Society gave birth to the Foundation on the one hand to witness a consolidated presence in the field of solidarity, on the other to enhance history, ideas and ethical roots of all expressions of mutualism in the view of the social economy, promoting research, studies and conferences on aspects of the past and present.

With the Foundation, the Mutual Benefit Society implements a dynamic tool to request a full legitimacy of the model of mutual aid in civil society and in the economy in order to increase the well-being and social cohesion.

The Foundation for Mutuality wants to know the mutual aid to a wider audience of civil society and make it clear to all that the projects of mutual aid are an essential tool to bring workers, families, part of the society to more advanced levels of economic well-being, participation and effective enjoyment of the rights of citizenship.

The Foundation wants to open a communication channel more structured and permanent, to those who work on the needs and those who are not included in the fundamental rights, especially in a period of severe social and economic emergency. The Foundation is an entity that can carry out activities of social solidarity without compensation, while the Mutual Benefit Society, by law, cannot do anything, or almost, for non-members.

The Foundation can also be a bridge to the world for profit, to commercial enterprises who care about their reputation in the aspect of social responsibility. To those enterprises the Foundation can talk about solidarity and ethics, although in an operational and cultural different plan: it may open positive comparisons of management practices.

Much can make the Foundation to create favorable conditions towards a virtuous cycle of new relationships and attention. This is accomplished through conferences, training programs, studies and research on social needs and monitoring the quality of services, in order to compare models and behavior of the various actors in the market of social services (non-profit organizations, public bodies and their “dealers”, social cooperation, and profit-making companies).

The activities and cultural events, with a formidable cultural tool such as the Library Cesare Pozzo for Transport and Mutuality can also ensure the attention of the academic and cultural institutions of public history, models and agencies of mutual aid.