Title | What is a Workers’ Referendum for? Evidence from Italy |
Publication Type | Report |
Year of Publication | 2014 |
Authors | Carbonai, Davide, and Drago, Carlo |
Date Published | 2014/// |
Institution | MPRA Paper |
City | University Library of Munich, Germany |
Keywords | Italy, survey research, union democracy, Workers’ Referendum |
Abstract | In July 2007, the Prodi government and representatives of the three main Italian trade union confederations signed a landmark agreement on welfare and economic development. In October, in order to ratify or reject the agreement, the Italian labor movement organized a referendum, i.e. the Workers’ Referendum of 2007, inviting workers, pensioners and the unemployed to assess the agreement. Based on a comprehensive sampling (1,574 interviewees), these research notes provide an analysis of the Workers’ Referendum with regard to both key societal voting features and attitudes toward unions. |
URL | http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2521005 |