Fascist rule narrowed work-injury compensation while shifting costs onto tenant farmers

Evidence

51 “In February 1923, the state raised the degree of disability that farm workers had to demonstrate in order to obtain compensation for workrelated injuries from 10 percent to 15 percent. Th ese measures had reversed the extension of Giolitti in 1921. Th e right to indemnity shrank to include workers age 12 to 65 instead of 9 to 75 as provided by the Gilittian reforms. Th e reform also made mezzadri and tenant farmers responsible for paying a portion of the contributions that up to then had been entirely covered by their employers. By 1925, the Cassa Nazionale Infortuni reported that their contributions fell by 43 percent” (Pavan 2019, 866). — Clara E. Mattei, The Capital Order, 1709

Categorization

• XREF: Pattern of austerity shifting insurance costs from state to workers parallels modern contribution-shifting in benefit systems. — connects to: Fascism reimposed the economic-political divide that workers had breached — Clara E. Mattei, The Capital Order: How Economists…, 583; Fascist Italy’s wage cuts were justified using manipulated statistics — Clara E. Mattei, The Capital Order: How Economists…, 1716; Fascist austerity dismantled welfare, cut taxes on capital, and banned unions — Clara E. Mattei, Escape from Capitalism, 193 (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Fascism reimposed the economic-political divide that workers had breached #qualifies (0.80) — Clara E. Mattei, The Capital Order, 583
• Fascist state intervention in the private sector served capitalist interests, not state power #complicates (0.80) — Clara E. Mattei, The Capital Order, 1713
• Fascist Italy’s wage cuts were justified using manipulated statistics #expands (0.75) — Clara E. Mattei, The Capital Order, 1716
• Fascist austerity dismantled welfare, cut taxes on capital, and banned unions #expands (0.75) — Clara E. Mattei, Escape from Capitalism, 193