“The worker has his own personality, his own self-respect, his own ideas, his own political opinion, his own religious beliefs, and he wants these rights to be respected by everyone, especially by the employer,” said the first leader of the Confederazione Generale Italiana del Lavoro (CGIL) Giuseppe Di Vittorio in 1952. Yet between this statement in the 1950s and today many things have changed: not only what the worker is and has become, but also how trade unions have represented workers. This article, focusing on the introduction of the first minimum-income scheme in Italian history, explores how the role of trade unions in representing workers and promoting welfare expansion changed in the country in the 2010s.

“工人有自己的个性，有自己的自尊，有自己的想法，有自己的政治见解，有自己的宗教信仰，他希望这些权利得到每个人的尊重，尤其是雇主的尊重，”第一任领导人说。意大利劳动联合会 (CGIL) 朱塞佩·迪·维托里奥 (Giuseppe Di Vittorio) 于 1952 年发表声明。然而，从 1950 年代的这一声明到今天，许多事情都发生了变化：不仅是工人现在和已经成为的样子，而且工会代表工人的方式也发生了变化。本文重点关注意大利历史上第一个最低收入计划的出台，探讨工会在代表工人和促进福利扩大方面的作用在 2010 年代在该国发生了怎样的变化。