ABSTRACT
Of the three cities constituting North Italy’s ‘industrial triangle’ (Turin, Milan and Genoa), Turin was most lastingly affected by the aftermath of the First World War and the social conflict it produced. Not that the struggle between workers and industrialists was any more fierce or radical here. Nor was the period of union militancy more prolonged. Indeed, it would be fair to say that labour conflicts went on for longer elsewhere. Milan, for example, was the city that gave birth, in late August 1920, to the movement that was to culminate a month later in the occupation of the factories.1
