It was not only the Cold War
Italian and American trade unionism for the economic development of the country (1947–1960)
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9816728 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Giampiero Bianchi (Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore di Roma, Italia, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2013 |
| Volume | 47 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 463-471 |
| Publication date | 2013-08-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Forum Italicum A Journal of Italian Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0014-5858 • E-ISSN: 2168-989X |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0014585813486246 |
| OpenAlex | W1995017307 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 5 |
During the crucial years in which Italian society for the first time in its history became an advanced industrial society, took part in a free international economy and consolidated the foundations of its young democracy, a group of Italian and American trade unionists started to look at ways to transform work and business in Italy. These attempts sometimes met with success but at other times with failure. Italian trade unionism split into different parts: the CGIL trade union remained tied to the economic culture and praxis of the Third Communist International, while the CISL mixed the ideas of J Commons and J Maritain and M Mounier, changing completely its strategy between 1948 and 1950. It was a ‘new union’ walking away from its own traditions: many of CISL’s opponents called it the ‘American Trade Union’ and accused it of imitating the USA’s productivity, industrial democracy, vertical organization and its complete autonomy from the state and political parties. So far, the historiography has read this event only in the context of the Cold War, but this point of view does not explain all those matters that persisted in the Italian Labor market: today’s policies for productivity, the new collective bargaining reforms and the problems of industrial democracy are just some examples that demonstrate that at the end of the Cold War the same issues remained
Collective bargaining · Commons · Communism · Context (archaeology · Democracy · Economic democracy · Economic history · Economics · Economy · Free trade · Historiography · Industrial democracy · International trade · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Trade union · History · Italian Fascism and Post-war Society · Law
Participatory Unionism
The New Unionism
Luigi Antonini, the Italian-American labor council, and cold-war politics in Italy, 1943–1949
L'Italia nel sistema economico internazionale. Il management dell'integrazione. Finanza, industria e istituzioni 1945-1955
Gli Stati Uniti e il sindacalismo europeo, 1944-1951
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |