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The Troubled Partnership: Trade Unions and Working-class Parties in Italy, 1948-78

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 October 1978

Paolo Farneti
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The problem of ‘tutelage’ of trade unions by political parties in italy must be seen against a background of: the structural conditions of the labour market (where trade unions are active) and those of the ‘political market’ (where parties are active) as masses for manoeuvre used to attain certain aims; the characteristics of the leadership of the trade unions and those of the political parties; the ‘styles of leadership’ (including the conduct of conflict) by trade union and party leaders.

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Government and Opposition , Volume 13 , Issue 4 , October 1978 , pp. 416 - 436
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Copyright © Government and Opposition Ltd 1978

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References

1 For the distinction between the areas of analysis: ‘civil society’, ‘political society’ and ‘institutions’ see my Introduction to II sistema politico italiano, Il Mulino, Bologna, 1973.

2 See, for instance, Galli, Giorgio et al., La presenza sociale del PCI e della DC, Il Mulino, Bologna, 1968 Google Scholar.

3 For a comment on these models of Italian politics, elaborated by Giovanni Sartori, Joseph La Palombara and others, see Farneti, P., ‘Ricerca e analisi nella classe politica italiana’, in Rassegna Italiana di Sociologia, XIII (i), 1972, pp. 80–88 Google Scholar, and Tarrow, S., ‘The Italian Party System between Crisis and Transition’, in American Journal of Political Science, XXI (2), 1977, pp. 193–224 CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

4 See, for instance, Bagnascó, Arnaldo, Tre Italie. La problematica territoriale dello sviluppo italiano, Il Mulino, Bologna, 1977 Google Scholar, which shows the unequal development of of the regions of North West (Piedmont, Valdost, Lombardy and Liguria), Centre-North East (Veneto, Emilia, Tuscany, Marche, Umbria and Latium) and South (Abruzzi, Campania, Apulia, Lucania, Calabria, Sicily and Sardinia).

5 See Joseph A.\Raffaele, , Labor Leadership in Italy and Denmark, The University of Wisconsin Press, Madison, 1962, especially p. 73 Google Scholar andff.

6 Turone, Sergio, Storia del sindacato in Italia, Laterza, Bari, 1973, p. 262 Google Scholar.

7 See Tamburrano, Giuseppe, Storia e cronaca del centrosinistra, Feltrinelli, Milano, 1971 Google Scholar.

8 Sergio Turone, op. cit., p. 366.

9 Salvati, Michele, II sistema economico italiano: analisi di una crisi, Il Mulino, Bologna, 1975 Google Scholar.

10 Pizzorno, Alessandro, Reyneri, E., Regini, M., Regalia, I., Lotte operaie e sindacato: il ciclo 1968-1972 in Italia, Il Mulino, Bologna, 1978, p. 13 Google Scholar.

11 For all this phenomenon see mainly: Forbice, Aldo, Chiaberge, Riccardo, II sindacate dei consigli, Bertani, Verona, 1974, p. 84 Google Scholar and ff., and A. Pizzorno et al, op. cit., pp. 7-45.

12 Aldo Forbice, Riccardo Chiaberge, op. cit., pp. 121, 126.

13 Aldo Forbice, Riccardo Chiaberge, op. cit., p. 134.; Romagnoli, Guido, Consigli di fabbrica e democrazia sindacale, Mazzotta, Milano, 1976 Google Scholar; Alessandro Pizzorno et al., op. cit.

14 Taratitelli, Ezio (ed.), Salario e crisi economica, Savelli, Roma, 1976, p. 86 Google Scholar.

15 There is considerable ‘documentation’ on this about-turn by the CGIL and the other unions; see the several interviews with Luciano Lama, of which the last appeared in La Stampa of 27 May 1978.

16 See Samuel Finer, E., I sindacati e lo Stato liberal-democratico, in Urbani, G. (ed.), Sindacati e politica nella società post-industriale, II Mulino, Bologna, 1976, pp. 51–75 Google Scholar.