In this paper we intend to take a closer look at Italian trade unionism, analysing trends and the causes of the difficulties it is facing, s well as the countermeasures taken. We can affirm that the associative power of Italian trade unions is quantitatively mores solid and stable with regard to comparable countries. Nevertheless, the situation is more critical from the structural, organisational and institutional points of view, where trade union outreach has been qualitatively undermined by challenges so serious as so threaten substantially its role in contemporary Italian society... [Leer más...]