L’Italia del lavoro nel dopoguerra. La dottrina giuslavoristica tra ‘continuità’ e volontà di cambiamento

Abstract

Change and continuity is the combination that best describes the animated and conflicting dynamics that coloured all the fronts within the newborn Republic after World War II. All the more reason this contrast occurs in subjects with a strong ideological density such as labour law and trade union law, characterized by the corporatist approach during the 'twenty years', and in which the changed political context needs to (re)find their own scientific autonomy. This article attempts to provide a reconstructive overview of the main doctrinal approaches that characterized labour law after the Second World War, through the analysis of magazines and the most popular writings. The aim is to start a reflection on the influence that the different academic voices had on the discipline, both immediately where it is necessary to deal with the application of the nascent constitutional principles, and in the following decade characterized by the epochal labour law reforms in the years of ‘legal guarantee’.