Ilaria Favretto
Biographic Data
| ID | 636785 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ilaria Favretto |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ilaria |
| FAMILY NAME | Favretto |
| SIGNATURE | FAVRETTO I |
| AFFILIATIONS | Kingston University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 29 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 18 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 28 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Cultures of Protest and Industrial Conflict in Italy since 1945
The book explores the protest methods and the underpinning protest cultures of Italian industrial workers from the collapse of Fascism to the present day, providing key insights into the Italian labour movement and its complexity. Scholars often portray the labour movement as relatively conventional and unimaginative in its tactics. Nonetheless, drawing on anthropology, social movement studies, and cultural history, the book demonstrates the vari…
The European left finally halted
Introduction
This introduction to the special issue ‘Gender and Work in Twentieth-Century Italy’ draws on key strands of historical scholarship on gender and work, including women workers’ experiences, labour market discrimination, domestic work, the impact of gender norms, and ideas of masculinity and femininity on work identities. It traces the development of feminist influence within this scholarship, from making women workers’ experiences visible to chall…
A love letter to the north London working class
Social movements re‐imagine the world
Il lavoro attraverso lo sguardo femminile
An exhibition titled Through the Female Gaze: Women and Work in Italy since the 1950s was held in London (December 2021) and then Edinburgh (March-May 2022). The curator and the organisers discuss in this article its content and importance. The exhibition combined photos of militant female photographers such as Letizia Battaglia, Marcella Campagnano, Lisetta Carmi, the Collettivo Donne Fotoreporter, Cristina Omenetto, Lori Sammartino, and younger…
The complicated business of social movements
The price of casual labour
Honouring David Marquand
On the Edge of Democracy
Rosario Forlenza’s book aims to explore the meanings and understandings of democracy that underpinned Italy’s transition between the summer of 1943, when Mussolini was removed from government, and 1948, when the new republican constitution came into force. In Forlenza’s words, these were ‘liminal years’. As he explains, anthropologists describe liminality as a time of lost certainties; a phase when ‘the usual constraints on thought, self-understa…
Italy from crisis to crisis. Political economy, security and society in the 21 st century
Matthew Evangelista’s collection of essays is a welcome and precious addition to scholarly reflections on Italian politics, economics and society over the last four decades. This is a time during w
Toilets and resistance in Italian factories in the 1950s
In the literature on industrial conflict, the Italy of the 1950s is often described as marked by worker acquiescence and an absence of conflict, ensured by high unemployment and the severe repression of union activism. My research challenges this. While formal, organized collective action subsided, workers continued to show their defiance and opposition to factory authorities by means of diverse acts of individual resistance that have escaped sch…
The British too can protest
Dreaming in public with American radicals
Protest, Popular Culture and Tradition in Modern and Contemporary Western Europe
Round Table. The ‘British School’ and Italian Historiography
Italian summary I contributi sopra intendono riflettere sulla cosiddetta ‘scuola britannica’ di storici e ricercatori specializzati nello studio dell’Italia moderna e contemporanea. Facendo seguito ad una tavola rotonda tenutasi durante il Convegno ASMI 2016, abbiamo chiesto a coloro che vi hanno partecipato di pubblicare i propri interventi nella forma di brevi saggi. In essi viene discussa l’influenza della storiografia britannica sullo studio …
The “Opening to the Left”
Molly Tambor. The Lost Wave
Historical accounts of Italy during the 1950s have long focused on foreign relations and Cold War politics with less attention directed toward domestic politics. This trend has occurred for two reasons. First, the prevailing assumption has been that little independent policymaking took place because of Italy’s frontline position in the battle against Communism and the Christian Democrats’ (CD) close relationship with the United States. Second, it…
Rough Music and Factory Protest in Post-1945 Italy
The years 1958 to 1963 saw unprecedented economic growth in Italy, commonly described in Italian history books as the 'economic miracle'. They also signalled the return of labour unrest. Throughout the 1940s and 1950s, high unemployment rates, combined with heavy repression of union activism inside factories - directed particularly against the Communist and Socialist union CGIL (Confederazione Generale Italiana del Lavoro) - had secured a long pe…
Italian Politics 2010. Much Ado about Nothing
Which Socialism, Whose Détente? West European Communism and the Czechoslovak crisis of 1968
The Wilson Governments and the Italian Centre-Left Coalitions
The purpose of this article (based on archival material from the National Archives, Kew, and the Labour archive in Manchester) is to explore the relationship between the British Labour Party and the Italian Socialist Party during the Wilson governments and the Italian centre-left coalitions between 1964 and 1970. The inclusion of the PSI within the Italian government was very much appreciated (and promoted) by Labour as it was expected it would b…
Conference report, ‘Conflicting Memories and Mutual Representations
Conference report, ‘Conflicting Memories and Mutual Representations: Italy and the Balkans from World War II to the Present’, A two-day International Conference at Kingston University, 5–6 June 2003 1 - Volume 9 Issue 1
Italy, EU enlargement and the ‘reinvention’ of Europe between historical memories and present representations
The Long Search for a Third Way
Ilaria Favretto presents a detailed study which traces the origins of the Third Way by comparing the European Left's contemporary neo-revisionism with past revisionist attempts. Focussing its analysis
Italy, EU enlargement and the ‘reinvention’ of Europe between historical memories and present representations
Wilsonism’ reconsidered
The focus of this article is on Labour's revisionism in the years 1952–1964; its scope is a reassessment of the intellectual debate preceding the Wilson years and of some consolidated assumptions on the theoretical premises which lay behind Labour's return to power in 1964. The main argument is that 'Wilsonism', understood as a set of policies, was something more than a number of rhetorical devices developed to put an end to internal party power‐…
Toilets and resistance in Italian factories in the 1950s
In the literature on industrial conflict, the Italy of the 1950s is often described as marked by worker acquiescence and an absence of conflict, ensured by high unemployment and the severe repression of union activism. My research challenges this. While formal, organized collective action subsided, workers continued to show their defiance and opposition to factory authorities by means of diverse acts of individual resistance that have escaped sch…
Rough Music and Factory Protest in Post-1945 Italy
The years 1958 to 1963 saw unprecedented economic growth in Italy, commonly described in Italian history books as the 'economic miracle'. They also signalled the return of labour unrest. Throughout the 1940s and 1950s, high unemployment rates, combined with heavy repression of union activism inside factories - directed particularly against the Communist and Socialist union CGIL (Confederazione Generale Italiana del Lavoro) - had secured a long pe…
The Italian Left in search of ideas
In the wake of the collapse of 'really-existing' socialism and against a background of the growing influence of neo-liberal political thought, European socialist parties - and especially the former communist parties - have found it crucially important to reassert their liberal credentials. This explains the interest displayed by the Italian Left in liberal socialism, Dahrendorf 's New Liberalism and American liberalism, and especially in what is …
Round Table. The ‘British School’ and Italian Historiography
Italian summary I contributi sopra intendono riflettere sulla cosiddetta ‘scuola britannica’ di storici e ricercatori specializzati nello studio dell’Italia moderna e contemporanea. Facendo seguito ad una tavola rotonda tenutasi durante il Convegno ASMI 2016, abbiamo chiesto a coloro che vi hanno partecipato di pubblicare i propri interventi nella forma di brevi saggi. In essi viene discussa l’influenza della storiografia britannica sullo studio …
Italian Politics 2010. Much Ado about Nothing
The Wilson Governments and the Italian Centre-Left Coalitions
The purpose of this article (based on archival material from the National Archives, Kew, and the Labour archive in Manchester) is to explore the relationship between the British Labour Party and the Italian Socialist Party during the Wilson governments and the Italian centre-left coalitions between 1964 and 1970. The inclusion of the PSI within the Italian government was very much appreciated (and promoted) by Labour as it was expected it would b…
New Labour and the Italian Left compared
The end of the Cold War, the globalization of markets, and the end of Fordist models of production have all radically changed the context within which the European parties of the Left operate. This article, through an analysis of a broad range of recently published literature on New Labour in Britain and the Democratici di sinistra in Italy (and its predecessor, the PDS), examines the way these transformations have affected the two parties in rec…
Wilsonism’ reconsidered
The focus of this article is on Labour's revisionism in the years 1952–1964; its scope is a reassessment of the intellectual debate preceding the Wilson years and of some consolidated assumptions on the theoretical premises which lay behind Labour's return to power in 1964. The main argument is that 'Wilsonism', understood as a set of policies, was something more than a number of rhetorical devices developed to put an end to internal party power‐…
And the PSI
The focus of this article is the revisionist course which the Italian Socialist Party embarked upon after 1956 and which led up to the first Centre-Left government. The article challenges two quite well established views. One view is that the transformation experienced by the PSI during the 1956-64 period was simply tactically expedient and devoid of any substance and consistency. This article argues, by contrast, that these years represented, in…
The Italian Left in search of ideas
In the wake of the collapse of 'really-existing' socialism and against a background of the growing influence of neo-liberal political thought, European socialist parties - and especially the former communist parties - have found it crucially important to reassert their liberal credentials. This explains the interest displayed by the Italian Left in liberal socialism, Dahrendorf 's New Liberalism and American liberalism, and especially in what is …
The Long Search for a Third Way
Ilaria Favretto presents a detailed study which traces the origins of the Third Way by comparing the European Left's contemporary neo-revisionism with past revisionist attempts. Focussing its analysis
Conference report, ‘Conflicting Memories and Mutual Representations
Conference report, ‘Conflicting Memories and Mutual Representations: Italy and the Balkans from World War II to the Present’, A two-day International Conference at Kingston University, 5–6 June 2003 1 - Volume 9 Issue 1
Italy, EU enlargement and the ‘reinvention’ of Europe between historical memories and present representations
The Wilson Governments and the Italian Centre-Left Coalitions
The purpose of this article (based on archival material from the National Archives, Kew, and the Labour archive in Manchester) is to explore the relationship between the British Labour Party and the Italian Socialist Party during the Wilson governments and the Italian centre-left coalitions between 1964 and 1970. The inclusion of the PSI within the Italian government was very much appreciated (and promoted) by Labour as it was expected it would b…
Which Socialism, Whose Détente? West European Communism and the Czechoslovak crisis of 1968
Italian Politics 2010. Much Ado about Nothing
The “Opening to the Left”
Molly Tambor. The Lost Wave
Historical accounts of Italy during the 1950s have long focused on foreign relations and Cold War politics with less attention directed toward domestic politics. This trend has occurred for two reasons. First, the prevailing assumption has been that little independent policymaking took place because of Italy’s frontline position in the battle against Communism and the Christian Democrats’ (CD) close relationship with the United States. Second, it…
Rough Music and Factory Protest in Post-1945 Italy
The years 1958 to 1963 saw unprecedented economic growth in Italy, commonly described in Italian history books as the 'economic miracle'. They also signalled the return of labour unrest. Throughout the 1940s and 1950s, high unemployment rates, combined with heavy repression of union activism inside factories - directed particularly against the Communist and Socialist union CGIL (Confederazione Generale Italiana del Lavoro) - had secured a long pe…
Protest, Popular Culture and Tradition in Modern and Contemporary Western Europe
Round Table. The ‘British School’ and Italian Historiography
Italian summary I contributi sopra intendono riflettere sulla cosiddetta ‘scuola britannica’ di storici e ricercatori specializzati nello studio dell’Italia moderna e contemporanea. Facendo seguito ad una tavola rotonda tenutasi durante il Convegno ASMI 2016, abbiamo chiesto a coloro che vi hanno partecipato di pubblicare i propri interventi nella forma di brevi saggi. In essi viene discussa l’influenza della storiografia britannica sullo studio …
The British too can protest
Dreaming in public with American radicals
Italy from crisis to crisis. Political economy, security and society in the 21 st century
Matthew Evangelista’s collection of essays is a welcome and precious addition to scholarly reflections on Italian politics, economics and society over the last four decades. This is a time during w
Toilets and resistance in Italian factories in the 1950s
In the literature on industrial conflict, the Italy of the 1950s is often described as marked by worker acquiescence and an absence of conflict, ensured by high unemployment and the severe repression of union activism. My research challenges this. While formal, organized collective action subsided, workers continued to show their defiance and opposition to factory authorities by means of diverse acts of individual resistance that have escaped sch…
Honouring David Marquand
On the Edge of Democracy
Rosario Forlenza’s book aims to explore the meanings and understandings of democracy that underpinned Italy’s transition between the summer of 1943, when Mussolini was removed from government, and 1948, when the new republican constitution came into force. In Forlenza’s words, these were ‘liminal years’. As he explains, anthropologists describe liminality as a time of lost certainties; a phase when ‘the usual constraints on thought, self-understa…
The complicated business of social movements
The price of casual labour
Il lavoro attraverso lo sguardo femminile
An exhibition titled Through the Female Gaze: Women and Work in Italy since the 1950s was held in London (December 2021) and then Edinburgh (March-May 2022). The curator and the organisers discuss in this article its content and importance. The exhibition combined photos of militant female photographers such as Letizia Battaglia, Marcella Campagnano, Lisetta Carmi, the Collettivo Donne Fotoreporter, Cristina Omenetto, Lori Sammartino, and younger…
Social movements re‐imagine the world
Political science (17 works) · Sociology (15 works) · Law (14 works) · Italian Fascism and Post-war Society (13 works) · Politics (12 works) · History (11 works) · Political economy (11 works) · Computer Science (10 works) · Law (10 works) · Library science (8 works)