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David Broder is Jacobin’s Europe editor and a historian of French and Italian communism.

When Italy’s Escalator Ground to a Halt

Postwar Italy’s “escalator” system kept wages ahead of price hikes. In the 1980s, a socialist government brought it grinding to a halt — sending workers’ incomes on a decades-long downward trend.

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