Fascist Italy in the Age of Corporatism

Searching for a Third Way

Bibliographic Data

ID23543641
AuthorsAlessio Gagliardi (0000-0002-6258-0990)
Year2024
Publication date2024-02-06
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueFascist Italy in the Age of Corporatism (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherRoutledge (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.4324/9781032713267
OpenAlexW4391575289
ISBN9781032713267
LanguageEN
Citations received4

The interwar period was marked in Europe by the rediscovery of corporatism as a possible solution to the crucial problems of modern mass society. This was the result of general changes across industrialised countries in the relationship between the state and social groups. In Italy, it took on a uniquely authoritarian shape. Fascist regime became the cradle of a new model of corporatism, a “third way” alternative to both capitalism and communism, destined to influence both political, juridical, and economic debate and similar legislative experiments undertaken by other countries, be they democratic or authoritarian. The book offers an overview of corporatism in Fascist Italy. It examines not only the ideology but also the acts and real activities of corporative institutions (corporazioni). It dwells upon internal debates, the political and institutional importance acquired by corporative institutions in the Fascist regime, and the behaviour of entrepreneurial organizations and labour unions. At the same time, the book highlights the role of Italy in the transnational circulation of the corporative ideal by reconstructing both the considerable influence of Mussolini’s regime in a range of different political and geographical contexts and the way in which the authorities in Rome turned to coeval international experiences.

Corporatism · Economic history · Political science · Politics · History · Italian Fascism and Post-war Society · Law

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