Economic interest groups Flashcards
first economic policy
focussed on placating large economic groups, eg. Fiat and Pirelli
small shop owners
economic interests of small shop owners protected; licensing system introduced protected retailers against larger supermarkets
business
Italian businesses benefitted most from PNF policies
trade union policy adapted to rake interests of industrialists and syndicalists
October 1925: industrialists recognised fascist syndicates as only representative body for Italian workers
Palazzo Vidoni Pact; ensured disillusion of Catholic, socialist and communist trade unions
prominent syndicalists argued that fascist sydicalists should be basis of state whereby corporations of employers and employees would run economy together
would ensure regulation of big business and workers would not engage in industrial unrest in return
conservative industrial elite concerned about economic concept of Mussolini, no intention of alienating power group
1926
Rocco Law
allowed synicates some rights of representation and for compulsory arbitration of disputes concerning workers’ pay and conditions
strikes, go-slows and lockouts banned and syndicates would have no say in government policy
welcomed by industrial interest groups
economic slump
930’s international economic slump: government pursued policies that supported big business and encouraged further wage cuts for workers; favoured big industry
Montecatini (chemicals), ILVA (steel)
benefactors of policies
Mussolini pursued range of policies that pleased Italy’s large and medium sized land owners; richer industrial and agricultural interest groups were main benefactors of fascist economic policies
workers interest
workers’ interests in north and south subsidiary to concerns of powerful economic elites
rural areas
little benefit to peasants and small landowners, workers across Italy saw wages reduced below cost of living from 1927
