Corporate State
What Corporate State means in History A-Level, as defined for AQA, Pearson Edexcel.
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Reference: AQA
Mussolini's economic vision designed to eliminate class conflict by organising employers and workers into syndicates under state control, though in practice it heavily favoured employers.
Corporations were set up to link employers and workers, but in practice they favoured employers and did not achieve economic coordination.
Topics that use Corporate State
- 2L Italy and Fascism, c1900–1945 – Fascist society, 1926–1940 (A-level only) (AQA A-Level)
- The fascist state, 1925–40 (Pearson Edexcel A-Level)
Related terms
- Lateran Pacts
- Alliances with traditional elites
- Autarky
- Autarky and militarism
- Class relations and living standards
- Cult of Il Duce
- Economic corporatism
- Fascistisation
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