ABSTRACT¹

The study builds on the international scholarship on equal pay as a global struggle, which peaked in the so-called Golden Age of the twentieth century but continued to be highly relevant in the decades following the UN International Women’s Year and nowadays as well. The debate and struggle for equal pay in Cold War Italy is investigated as a case study useful to understanding how the very concepts of equality and social justice were put into practice with regard to women workers. The specificity of the Italian context is investigated within a comparative perspective, which unveils how equal pay struggles connect different geopolitical spaces. In addition to the international scholarship, the article draws on parliamentary speeches, conference proceedings and archival material produced by women’s associations, trade unions, employers’ associations, the Italian government, the European Economic Community and the International Labour Organization. Particular attention is also devoted to the biographies of Italian women involved in the thirty-year struggle for equal pay and equality rights, which also played a role at the European and international level.

摘要¹

该研究建立在关于同工同酬作为一项全球斗争的国际学术研究的基础上，该研究在所谓的 20 世纪黄金时代达到顶峰，但在联合国国际妇女年之后的几十年以及现在仍然具有高度相关性。冷战时期意大利的同工同酬辩论和斗争作为一个案例研究进行了调查，有助于理解平等和社会正义的概念是如何在女工身上付诸实践的。意大利背景的特殊性在比较的角度进行了研究，揭示了同工同酬的斗争如何连接不同的地缘政治空间。除了国际学术，文章还借鉴了议会演讲、会议记录和妇女协会、工会、雇主协会制作的档案材料，意大利政府、欧洲经济共同体和国际劳工组织。还特别关注意大利妇女的传记，这些妇女参与了三十年争取同工同酬和平等权利的斗争，这也在欧洲和国际层面发挥了作用。