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SUMMARY:The Fascist Welfare State: Cleavages\, Rupture\, and Mediation -  
 Ilaria Pavan (Associate Professor of Modern History\, Scuola Normale Super
 iore)
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CONTACT:Julian Siebert
DESCRIPTION:In the huge literature on the Fascist regime\, the Fascist wel
 fare state has not received enough attention. The few existing studies\, w
 hile valuable\, only examine individual welfare institutions (the National
  Fascist Institute for Social Insurances\, the National Agency of Maternit
 y and Childhood). A global overview\, attempting a reconstruction of the c
 oordinates of the Fascist welfare state\, of its characteristics\, and abo
 ve all its concrete results\, as a whole\, is still missing. Yet\, the top
 ic is crucial in the endless debate on the totalitarian character of Fasci
 sm – in particular\, its analysis is essential for understanding the nat
 ure of the ambiguous relationship between the National Fascist Party and s
 tate institutions\, and the conflicting boundaries of their respective are
 as of influence. Moreover\, the study Fascist welfare policies can be a ke
 y tool for tackling the complex topic of consensus. If the depiction of th
 e Fascist regime as the main actor which built and shaped the ‘modern’
 (post-1945) Italian welfare state is still prevalent – even at the level
  of the current public debate –\, to a closer and more precise investiga
 tion the novelties introduced by the regime are many fewer than one might 
 think: the aspect of continuity with the liberal past is prevalent. In the
  field of social policy the regime acted in an unsystematic way\, often wi
 th ‘surgical’ rather than structural interventions. Far from having a 
 specific and clear approach\, its actions perpetuate the solutions and ins
 titutions forged in the Liberal era – as it happened for example in the 
 field of social insurance policies\, marked by an almost total immobility 
 between 1922 and 1939. Considering\, for the first time\, social insurance
 s\, social assistance and health sectors as a whole\, this talk aims at re
 constructing the different layers on which the ‘Fascist social model’ 
 was built. What\, and how many\, were the factual innovations introduced? 
 What was their effectiveness? What was the role -– especially in the fie
 lds of social assistance and health – still played by Catholic instituti
 ons?\n\nRegister "here":https://wolfson-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/webinar/register
 /6616099379293/WN_AR3fINL_RjKjMHKrHWZIaw
LOCATION:Wolfson College Zoom webinar
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