Wages and labor rights continued to fl ourish throughout the decade. In Italy, the years 1970– 1977 saw real wages rise at an annual average of about 7 percent (Levrero and Stirati 2004, 2), with the wage share increasing and reaching a high of 70 percent in 1977. Similar trends were on display in Britain, where workers' activism in the postwar decades brought the national wage share as high as 79 percent in 1975.

Clara E. Mattei, The Capital Order, loc. 1553