Abstract

Today, as in the past, the cultural objectives and everyday activities of the Fondazione Giacomo Brodolini are largely inspired by the significance that Brodolini attached to the concepts of conflict, rights and equality in the context of a society that still had some difficulty in acknowledging them at the time of his death. Of all the achievements, the Italian Workers' Statute remains an outstanding example. With it, in fact, ownership no longer constituted the fundamental principle upon which relations were based and the workplace became a social area within which freedom, safety, security and dignity were guaranteed for the workers. The essential conception that emerges sees the right to work as a means to enable the coexistence of different but not necessarily conflicting interests.