'These new rights': social security in the postwar Italian debate. Issue 2 (15th March 2017)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Pavan, Ilaria
• Is Part Of: Journal of modern Italian studies. Volume 22:Issue 2(2017)
• Page Start: 175
• Page End: 193
• Publication Date: 2017-03-15
• Subjects: Italy -- welfare state -- Italian constitution -- D'Aragona Commission -- Pesenti Commission; Italy -- History -- 20th century -- Periodicals; Italy -- History -- 19th century -- Periodicals; Italy -- Civilization -- 20th century -- Periodicals; Italy -- Civilization -- 19th century -- Periodicals; 945.091
• DOI: 10.1080/1354571X.2017.1286097
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1354-571X

Abstract

Abstract: At the end of World War II the Italian welfare system, which had taken shape under Fascism, was in need of a radical overhaul. Nevertheless, the wait for organic, structural reform dragged on for over two decades without arriving, even in the Sixties, at an efficient framework for the welfare state capable of dismantling the corporatist, familist one inherited from Fascism. This article reconstructs the debates on social security and social rights after World War II. Beginning with the interest that was sparked, even in Italy, by the Beveridge Report, I will investigate the meaning given to the expressions "social security" and "social rights" by politicians and technocrats engaged in trying to reform the Italian Welfare State.