ABSTRACT From 1968 to 1971, close to a thousand Italian civilian employees at the United States (U.S.) military base, Camp Darby, located in Tuscany faced a series of recurrent layoffs from the U.S. Department of Defence. In a determined effort to protect their jobs, the base workers launched a series of disruptive and persistent forms of protest and civil disobedience that played on the instability of the Italian government and threatened to unsettle the relations between Italy and the United States. Drawing on original archival material from both countries, including large numbers of Italian-language sources, this article provides the first detailed examination of the labor dispute at Camp Darby. I will argue that the base workers secured the intervention of politicians, diplomats, and the Prime Minister in the resolution of the labor dispute by asserting the political significance of their cause both domestically and internationally. The result, I argue, was foreign relations shaped by the agency and often, individual agenda of the non-American workforce at Camp Darby. The dispute points to the complex encounters at play on U.S. military bases abroad as American foreign relations are faced with the convergence of radical labor traditions with Italian domestic politics, and U.S. labor expectations.

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“门口的麻烦”：1968-1971 年在达秘营的意大利基地工人和外交关系

摘要 从 1968 年到 1971 年，位于托斯卡纳 (Tuscany) 的美国 (美国) 军事基地达比营 (Camp Darby) 的近 1000 名意大利文职雇员面临美国国防部的一系列反复裁员。为了保护自己的工作，基地工人发起了一系列具有破坏性和持久性的抗议和公民不服从形式，利用意大利政府的不稳定性，并威胁要扰乱意大利和美国之间的关系。本文利用来自两国的原始档案材料，包括大量意大利语来源，首次对达比营劳资纠纷进行了详细审查。我会争辩说，基层工人获得了政治家、外交官、和总理通过在国内和国际上主张其事业的政治意义来解决劳资纠纷。我认为，结果是该机构塑造了外交关系，而且通常是达比营非美国劳动力的个人议程。争端指向美国海外军事基地发生的复杂遭遇，因为美国的外交关系面临激进的劳工传统与意大利国内政治以及美国劳工期望的融合。