Olimpia Capitano is author of Livorno e il PCd'I. Premesse e linee di sviluppo.
A leading exponent of global labor history, Marcel van der Linden’s work looks beyond the Fordist industrial workforce to examine the ever-changing forms of exploitation on which capitalism relies.
A hundred years years ago, Italy’s Communist Party was founded in Livorno. The Tuscan port city had a long history of defying authority — and in the 1920s, its working-class neighborhoods were heartlands of the resistance against rising Fascism.