Abstract

The essay analyzes the relationship between labor law and political representation and the historicity of social rights, social rights seen in their link to the development of italian labour law in the twentieth century. A particular legal regulation that is affected by the economic and political dynamics around the idea of social citizenship drawn by the Republican Constitution. After underlining the relationship between history and law, the author examines the relationship between law and economics in the period between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the enhancement of social rights linked to the protection of the worker up to the crisis of labour law and the social state at the end of the twentieth century as an effect of the crisis of political and trade union representation at the end of the great solidarity ideologies.