TY - BOOK ID - 8706656 TI - Fascism in popular memory : the cultural experience of the Turin working class AU - Passerini, Luisa AU - Lumley, Robert AU - Bloomfield, Jude PY - 1987 SN - 0521302900 0521108780 0511753217 PB - Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Fascism KW - -Oral history KW - Working class KW - -Commons (Social order) KW - Labor and laboring classes KW - Laboring class KW - Labouring class KW - Working classes KW - Social classes KW - Labor KW - History KW - Oral biography KW - Oral tradition KW - Neo-fascism KW - Authoritarianism KW - Collectivism KW - Corporate state KW - National socialism KW - Synarchism KW - Totalitarianism KW - -Sources KW - Interviews KW - Employment KW - Methodology KW - Turin (Italy) KW - -Turin (Italy) KW - -Politics and government KW - -Social conditions KW - -History KW - Oral history KW - Commons (Social order) KW - History&delete& KW - Sources KW - Turim (Italy) KW - Torino (Italy) KW - Augusta Taurinorum (Italy) KW - Comune di Torino (Italy) KW - Città di Torino (Italy) KW - Taurasia (Italy) KW - Julia Augusta Taurinorum (Italy) KW - Politics and government KW - Social conditions. KW - Arts and Humanities KW - Oral history. KW - Sources. KW - Interviews. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:8706656 AB - This book is based on the oral life histories of about 70 men and women workers, born between the end of the last century and 1920, which are combined with sources such as police reports, documentary films and judicial documents. The interviewees recount their visions of life, of history, and of themselves; they call to memory the fascist period, and the ambivalent relationship between the Duce and the masses. A picture of resistance emerges, through such minor episodes as jokes and graffiti, wearing a red tie or whistling an old socialist tune, and through major issues such as abortions carried out in direct opposition to state propaganda. Acquiescence is also recalled, however, in the enrolment of children in fascist youth organisations or in the use of new state-controlled social services. The final chapter reconstructs an event that acquired great symbolic meaning: the eloquent and unexpected silence of the Fiat workers before Mussolini in 1939 at the inauguration of the Miraflori factory. ER -