Turin factory council movement
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The Turin factory council movement was a worker-led initiative in early 20th-century Italy that sought to establish democratic control of factories through elected councils, becoming a key expression of revolutionary labor politics during the Biennio Rosso.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Turin factory council movement canonical | 1 |
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
labor movement
ⓘ
revolutionary movement ⓘ workers' council movement ⓘ |
| aim |
creation of factory councils elected by workers
ⓘ
democratic control of factories by workers ⓘ overcoming traditional trade-union and parliamentary mediation ⓘ |
| associatedWithOrganization |
Fiat workers in Turin
ⓘ
Italian Socialist Party ⓘ L'Ordine Nuovo ⓘ metalworkers' unions in Turin ⓘ |
| country | Italy ⓘ |
| dissolvedBecauseOf | repression and defeat of factory occupations in 1920 ⓘ |
| endTime | 1920 ⓘ |
| followedBy | rise of Italian Fascism ⓘ |
| hasCause |
industrial conflict in Turin
ⓘ
influence of the Russian Revolution of 1917 ⓘ post-World War I social unrest in Italy ⓘ |
| hasConcept |
direct democracy in the workplace
ⓘ
factory council ⓘ workers' control of production ⓘ |
| historicalContext | post-World War I economic crisis in Italy ⓘ |
| historicalPeriod | interwar period ⓘ |
| ideology |
council communism
ⓘ
revolutionary socialism ⓘ workers' self-management ⓘ |
| influenced |
Antonio Gramsci's political theory
ⓘ
Italian communist movement ⓘ later debates on workers' councils in Europe ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
Leninism
ⓘ
Marxism ⓘ Soviets ⓘ
surface form:
Russian soviets
syndicalism ⓘ |
| keyFigure |
Angelo Tasca
ⓘ
Antonio Gramsci ⓘ Palmiro Togliatti ⓘ Umberto Terracini ⓘ |
| languageOfMovement | Italian ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Northern Italy
ⓘ
Piedmont ⓘ |
| location | Turin ⓘ |
| notableEvent | factory occupations in Turin in 1920 ⓘ |
| opposedBy |
Confindustria
ⓘ
surface form:
Italian industrialists
Italian state authorities ⓘ emerging Fascist squads ⓘ reformist trade-union leadership ⓘ |
| partOf | Biennio Rosso ⓘ |
| significance |
early example of workers' councils in Western Europe
ⓘ
major expression of revolutionary labor politics in Italy ⓘ |
| startTime | 1919 ⓘ |
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