Welfare provision at Pirelli from business start-up to the early post-1945 period
Forging a special link with the workers, who, in the work they did, saw a chance of satisfying their needs, was an essential element if the enterprise was to succeed. Such was the view of its founder, Giovanni Battista Pirelli.
Welfare provision at Pirelli came into being with the enterprise itself (1872), and the assiduous work of social and welfare support that followed gathered momentum over the years in step with the growth of the firm.
An interesting account of welfare activities by Pirelli between the turn of the nineteenth century and the early post-1945 period was given by Valerio Varini (Researcher at the Università degli Studi di Bicocca) during the symposium “Il welfare nella storia dell’impresa italiana” (Welfare in the history of Italian business undertakings), held at the Fondazione Pirelli on 16th February this year. The mutual benefit fund, the Pirelli firms Employees’ Club, the first foundation formed to ensure independence in the choice of welfare to provide, the factory as a haven of refuge, and the change in the nature of company-sourced welfare support immediately after the end of the Second World War – these and other issues were addressed by Valerio Varini in his paper, which is now available for downloading as a pdf file.
Forging a special link with the workers, who, in the work they did, saw a chance of satisfying their needs, was an essential element if the enterprise was to succeed. Such was the view of its founder, Giovanni Battista Pirelli.
Welfare provision at Pirelli came into being with the enterprise itself (1872), and the assiduous work of social and welfare support that followed gathered momentum over the years in step with the growth of the firm.
An interesting account of welfare activities by Pirelli between the turn of the nineteenth century and the early post-1945 period was given by Valerio Varini (Researcher at the Università degli Studi di Bicocca) during the symposium “Il welfare nella storia dell’impresa italiana” (Welfare in the history of Italian business undertakings), held at the Fondazione Pirelli on 16th February this year. The mutual benefit fund, the Pirelli firms Employees’ Club, the first foundation formed to ensure independence in the choice of welfare to provide, the factory as a haven of refuge, and the change in the nature of company-sourced welfare support immediately after the end of the Second World War – these and other issues were addressed by Valerio Varini in his paper, which is now available for downloading as a pdf file.