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There are, of course, moral qualms about the strange phenomenon of efficient but illegal industry. Professor Franco Ferrarotti, a sociologist at the University of Rome, argues that "from a social point of view, home industry is slave labor. It is obviously wrong. It would be better to drop it altogether." Yet he concedes, "It works. Black labor acts as a shock absorber enabling Italy to survive economic crises." His conclusion: "This is a very backward -and yet advanced-way of doing things...
Similar developments took place elsewhere in Italy. Using a combination of Christian moral ideals and political realism, the party shepherded the country through a long period of tricky and often wrenching social change, while managing to maintain social peace. Says Rome University Sociologist Franco Ferrarotti, a former "independent left" Deputy: "If I were a Christian Democrat, I would point out the undeniable facts of recent history-'We took in our arms a country with homes destroyed, with streets in the air, with unemployment between 6 million and 7 million -the worst in Europe, and perhaps in the world. Then...
Finally, there is a widespread belief -or at least a hope-that the Christian Democrats may yet find hidden reserves of political resiliency. "I don't believe that this is a death agony," says Sociologist Franco Ferrarotti. He points out that the party has survived other crises, including, in 1960, a short-lived flirtation with an alliance with neo-Fascists and a brush with civil disorder after the police fired on a crowd of demonstrators. Says Ferrarotti: "These comebacks show that there is an underlying resiliency. With an uncanny ability to reconcile opposing and contrasting positions...
...notion, many Europeans believed that it would mean the dismantling of the Common Market, with Britain and Italy cast adrift. "One can say that the main reason Italy is still democratic and not fascistic is that it is tied to the rest of Europe," says Rome University Sociologist Franco Ferrarotti. "If Italy is cut loose, it will truly become a disaster." Brandt's proposal, adds an American diplomat, would mean "the breakup of the Community on the installment plan...
...opinions on the U.S. is as broad and varied as Europe itself. In the north, for instance, Sweden's opposition to the war in Viet Nam has spilled over into continuing, virulent anti-Americanism. Far to the south, the average Italian, says University of Rome Sociologist Francesco Ferrarotti, "has a deep sense of almost compulsive admiration for Americans...