The Social Policy of Italian Fascism and the International Labour Organization

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ID3568056
AuthorsAlessio Gagliardi (0000-0002-6258-0990, University of Bologna, corresponding author)
Year2025
Volume97
Issue1
Pages152-179
Publication date2025-03-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueThe Journal of Modern History (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0022-2801 • E-ISSN: 1537-5358
PublisherUniversity of Chicago Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1086/733921
OpenAlexW4408143365
LanguageEN
References cited23

The article traces Fascist Italy’s participation in the International Labour Organization. The Italian presence was marked both by tensions—originating mainly from the removal of trade union freedom imposed by Mussolini’s regime—and by profound convergences. The representatives of the regime actively contributed to the functioning of a transnational circuit of analysis and legislation in the field of labor and social policies embodied in the ILO. Paradoxically, given Fascist opposition to the League of Nations system to which the ILO belonged, the regime’s engagement was determined not only by pragmatic interests but also by the belief, shared by the Italian authorities and the organization’s governing body, that economic liberalism was in decline and that a commitment was needed to develop new models for regulating the economy and labor

Demographic economics · Economics · Labour economics · Political science · Communism, Protests, Social Movements · International Labor and Employment Law · Italian Fascism and Post-war Society

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