Postwar Italian labor leaders recast the worker as indispensable and rights claims as settled

Evidence

Th e Italian workers, even more than their British counterparts, announced their indispensable role in society. Comprehensive social rights were no longer disputable. In the words of Rinaldo Rigola, textile worker and secretary of the Italian union General Confederation of Labour (CGdL), the worker was “the one without whom there would be nothing for nobody” (Rigola 1918, 7). — Clara E. Mattei, The Capital Order, 265

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Postwar workers demanded meaning and agency in production.; Postwar labor claims turned political out of hostility to capitalism itself — Clara E. Mattei, The Capital Order: How Economists…, 335; Workers’ wartime indispensability empowered postwar demands to transform the economic system — Clara E. Mattei, Escape from Capitalism: An Intervention, 174

Broader Connections

• Workers’ wartime indispensability empowered postwar demands to transform the economic system #corroborates (0.80) — Clara E. Mattei, Escape from Capitalism, 174
• Postwar workers demanded meaning and agency in production. #expands (0.78)
• Postwar labor claims turned political out of hostility to capitalism itself #expands (0.75) — Clara E. Mattei, The Capital Order, 335