Fascist Italy replaced independent trade unions with state labour corporations.

Evidence

Corporate here is more or less a synonym (or euphemism) for fascist, the Italian economy having been organised from 1926 in “Corporations”, including labour corporations which effectively took the place of the trade unions. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 2382

Categorization

• DEFINE: Gramsci’s term ‘corporate’ is fixed here as a euphemism for fascist, essential for reading his critiques of corporate ideology.
• XREF: Links to the toolkit’s concern with how bureaucratic institutions absorb and neutralize organized labour.