51 “In February 1923, the state raised the degree of disability that farm workers had to demonstrate in order to obtain compensation for workrelated injuries from 10 percent to 15 percent. Th ese measures had reversed the extension of Giolitti in 1921. Th e right to indemnity shrank to include workers age 12 to 65 instead of 9 to 75 as provided by the Gilittian reforms. Th e reform also made mezzadri and tenant farmers responsible for paying a portion of the contributions that up to then had been entirely covered by their employers. By 1925, the Cassa Nazionale Infortuni reported that their contributions fell by 43 percent” (Pavan 2019, 866).

Clara E. Mattei, The Capital Order, loc. 1709