In 1936 Mussolini's fascist regime embarked upon an ambitious plan to hold the 1942 World's Fair in a newly built city south of Rome. At the peak of construction in 1939–40 an army of 5,000 workers laboured to complete the city in ‘record time’. The labour utilised to build the new city became a critical public spectacle in the final years of fascist rule, highlighted in films, covered by the press and featured on the itineraries of Rome's most important visitors. This activity was guided not just by the construction of buildings but also the purported fabrication of a distinct Italian fascist worker subjectivity. With the aim of fashioning pliant workers lacking in proverbial ‘class consciousness’, fascist thinkers publicly exhibited Italian workers as fixed within a ‘natural’ hierarchy of ancient Roman origin. In these renderings of the ‘new’ worker, class antagonisms in the modern division of labour were replaced with illustrations of exemplary sacrifice to familial and interpersonal authority with the function of subsuming ‘class interests’ to both employers and the state. In spite of these narratives, fascist aims regularly encountered limits when confronted by real workers, as yielded by an examination of responses to the regime's mandates within the built environment. Although workers never fully embodied this new ‘interiority’, the regime was successful in grounding cultural norms in a constrained field of practice, generating a framework for the domination of labour.

1936 年，墨索里尼的法西斯政权开始了一项雄心勃勃的计划，即在罗马以南的一座新建城市举办 1942 年的世界博览会。在 1939-40 年的建设高峰期，一支由 5,000 名工人组成的军队以“创纪录的时间”完成了这座城市。在法西斯统治的最后几年，用于建造新城市的劳动力成为了一个重要的公共景观，在电影中得到了强调，被媒体报道并出现在罗马最重要的游客的行程中。这项活动不仅受到建筑物的建造指导，而且还受到所谓的意大利法西斯工人主体性的制造。为了塑造缺乏众所周知的“阶级意识”的顺从工人，法西斯思想家公开将意大利工人展示为固定在古罗马血统的“自然”等级制度中。在这些对“新”工人的描绘中，现代分工中的阶级对立被替换为对家庭和人际权威的模范牺牲，其功能是将“阶级利益”纳入雇主和国家。尽管有这些叙述，法西斯主义的目标在面对真正的工人时经常遇到限制，这是通过对建筑环境内对政权授权的反应的检查得出的。尽管工人从未完全体现这种新的“内在性”，但该政权成功地将文化规范植根于一个受限制的实践领域，为劳动力的统治创造了一个框架。现代劳动分工中的阶级对立被替代为对家庭和人际权威的模范牺牲，其功能是将“阶级利益”纳入雇主和国家。尽管有这些叙述，法西斯主义的目标在面对真正的工人时经常遇到限制，这是通过对建筑环境内对政权授权的反应的检查得出的。尽管工人从未完全体现这种新的“内在性”，但该政权成功地将文化规范植根于一个受限制的实践领域，为劳动力的统治创造了一个框架。现代劳动分工中的阶级对立被替代为对家庭和人际权威的模范牺牲，其功能是将“阶级利益”纳入雇主和国家。尽管有这些叙述，法西斯主义的目标在面对真正的工人时经常遇到限制，这是通过对建筑环境内对政权授权的反应的检查得出的。尽管工人从未完全体现这种新的“内在性”，但该政权成功地将文化规范植根于一个受限制的实践领域，为劳动力的统治创造了一个框架。通过对建筑环境内对该政权授权的反应的检查得出。尽管工人从未完全体现这种新的“内在性”，但该政权成功地将文化规范植根于一个受限制的实践领域，为劳动力的统治创造了一个框架。通过对建筑环境内对该政权授权的反应的检查得出。尽管工人从未完全体现这种新的“内在性”，但该政权成功地将文化规范植根于一个受限制的实践领域，为劳动力的统治创造了一个框架。