1. Italy's Summer of Discontent.
- Author
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Singer, Daniel
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CAPITALISM , *LABOR movement , *WORLD War III ,ECONOMIC conditions in Italy ,ITALIAN politics & government - Abstract
The article focuses on issues related to Italy's economic and political conditions. Italy's press is full of cliches about open borders and the financial measures the country must take to remain in the top league of European players. Italy's capitalist establishment has not done badly since the Third World war. It has presided over the country's second industrial revolution, then the overhaul of the economy, defeating the labor movement in the battle of Fiat and the struggle over the indexing of wages. While the newspapers were full of stories about the new government, most commentators were already thinking about a new regime. The old has done its time. Italy is probably the only country, along with Japan, in which the same party has been in office since the war.
- Published
- 1992