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O corporativismo da Itália fascista entre palavras e realidade

2016; Editora da Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul (EDIPUCRS); Volume: 42; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês

10.15448/1980-864x.2016.2.22336

1980-864X

Alessio Gagliardi,

Legal and Labor Studies

It is common knowledge that State intervention in Italy in the Twenties and the Thirties developed outside of corporative institutions. The history of Fascist corporatism, however, is not only an unsuccessful story. Despite the failure of the “corporatist revolution” and “Fascist third way”, Fascist corporatism since the mid-Twenties helped the progressive development of a new political system to regulate relationship between State and private interests. The paper examines not only the institutional framework (the systems of formal laws, regulations, and procedures, and informal norms) but also their acts and real activities. It dwells upon internal debates, political and institutional importance acquired by corporative institutions in Fascist regime and behaviours of entrepreneurial organizations and labour unions. In this way, the paper aims to point out the “real” consequences of Fascist corporatism, different from the ideological ones.