ITALY. 



AGRICUIvTURAIv ASSOCIATIONS OF EMPLOYERS 

 AND THE ECONOMIC INSTITUTIONS PROMOTED BY THEM. 



oFFiciAi, sources: 



lyE oRGAiazzAZioNi PADRONALi. PARTE I : I,E AGRARiB, (Employers' Or'j,anisations. Part I % 

 Agricultural Associations). Department of Agriculture, Industry and Conunerce. General 

 Division of Statistics and of I<abour. I<abour Office. Rome, Officina Poligrafica Ila- 

 liana, 191 2. 



BoLLETTiNo dell'ufficio DEL LAVORO [Bulletin of the Labour Office). Department of Agricul- 

 ture, Industry and Commerce. Division of Statistics and I^abour. 



OTHER SOURCES: 



CoNFEDERAZioNE N.AZioNALE Agraria : ly'organizzazioue agrarla in Italia. Sviluppo, ordi- 

 namento, azione. (National A;,ricultural Confederation. Agricultural Ori^anisation in Italy. 

 Development, Organisation, Work). Bologna, Stab. Poligrafico Emiliano. 1911. 



CONFEDERAZIONE NaZIONALE AGRARIA : ANNUARIO DELLE ASSOCIAZIONI AGRARIB ITA- 



LiANE,i9i3-i4. (National Agricultural Confederation. Yearbook of Italian Agricultural 

 Associations, 1913-14). Bologna, Stab. Poligrafico Emiliano. 1913. 

 Dragoni C. : II movimento <li organizzazione di classe tra i proprietari ed i conduttori di fondi 

 in Italia (The Movement in favour of Class Organisation among Proprietors and Farm 

 Managers in Italy) In " Iniziativa del Re d'ltalia e I'Istituto internazionale di Agricol- 

 tura ", Rome, G. Bertero, 1905, pages 278 et seqq. 



§ I. Origin AND progress op the agricui,turai, employers' associations. 



In view of the extension of the association movement among labourers 

 for the defence of their interests (i) and of the frequent recurrence of agricul- 

 tural strikes with serious injury to agriculture, proprietors and employers 

 of labour in Italy have found it necessary to unite in special associations, 

 commonly called Agrarie, to oppose organisation by organisation, and to 

 resist the often excessive demands of the Labourers' Leagues for better 



(i) Thenumlxr of labourers' leagues had risen, from 1,293 with 273,698 members (40 per 

 cent of the whole number of organised working men) in 1907, to 2,626 with 408,148 members 

 (47 per cent of the organised workingmen) on January ist., 1912. See Annuario statistico 

 Italiano, 2nd. series, vol II, 1912, p. 220. 



