Abstract
The decision of prime minister Craxi to push through by decree that part of the agreement that concerned wages aroused stiff opposition from the Communist component of the Confederazione Generale Italiana del Lavoro (CGIL), in full accord with the Communist Party. The links between trade unions and political parties have traditionally been very close in post-war Italy. One could speak here of a process of increasing functional autonomy of the CGIL, and of Italian trade unions in general. The ‘historic compromise’ was officially buried in 1980, in which year the Italian trade union movement also marked a turning point. Behind the CGIL’s crisis of representativeness and behind the political crisis of the party lie transformations in Italian society, changes in economic structures and mentalities, and the numerical erosion of the working class that has been the traditional base of the PCI and the CGIL alike.
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