FIAT – Twenty More Years 1980-1999 Volume 3

This last volume covers twenty years from 1980 to 1999, a period when many social conflicts occurred throughout Europe and Italy, where industrial relations between management and workers at Fiat and their supporters, the Italian unions, were at their lowest ebb. “People did anything in there except work” said Cesare Romiti, Gianni Agnelli’s hit-man, who fired 61 workers involved in terrorist activities, thus precipitating a 3-week strike which Romiti feared could bankrupt the company. Thankfully the unions backed down and the worst was avoided.