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This article engages with the most recent literature on the global circulation of corporatist projects, discussing three reform schemes elaborated in Britain during the first half of the twentieth century – G.D.H. Cole's guild socialism, Dudley Docker's technocratic business parliament and Harold Macmillan's conservative industrial self-government. Overcoming the often too rigid equivalences between corporatism and fascism, this article seeks to ascertain to what extent and with what nuances corporatist ideas circulated among non-fascist political circles in Britain. It is argued that the schemes analysed shared a similar corporatist matrix, which nonetheless served as the core idea of different political strategies. In the conclusions, it is claimed that these dissimilarities are consequential to the degree of adherence to the principles of capitalism, i.e. the profit-earning motive and the private ownership of the means of production, as well as to the democratic level of the institutions proposed.

This article analyzes the role of the New Age circle as a laboratory of corporatist ideas in pre-World War One Britain. The New Age circle was an intellectual informal network composed by radical, anti-liberal individuals coming from the entire political spectrum. Arguing that Corporatism was not just a socio-economic product of fascist, authoritarian and nationalist ideologies, the essay highlights the corporatist tendencies existed within the network in exam between 1907 and 1916. In so doing, we try to show how the United Kingdom participated to a global corporatist reflection started before the advent of Fascism also by non-fascist groups. Therefore the paper firstly presents an overview of the most important intellectual landmarks of the New Age circle, such as William Morris and John Ruskin's political and economic thought, Cardinal Manning's social ideas and the concept of group juridical personality of Frederic W. Maitland and John N. Figgis. Secondly, the several and different forms of corporatist thought were presented, such as Penty's medievalism, G.D.H. Cole's Guild Socialism, De Maeztu's right-wing, monarchic organicism and Belloc's social Catholicism. ; Este artigo analisa o papel do New Age Circle como um laboratório das ideias corporativas na Inglaterra no período anterior à Primeira Guerra Mundial. O New Age Circle foi uma rede informal composta por intelectuais radicais e antiliberais provenientes de todo o espectro político. Defendendo que o corporativismo não foi somente um produto socioeconómico das ideologias fascistas, autoritárias e nacionalistas, o artigo pretende demonstrar que tendências corporativas foram uma característica também da rede analisada, entre 1906 e 1916. Dessa forma, deseja explicar como a Inglaterra participou de uma reflexão corporativa global, iniciada antes do advento do fascismo entre grupos políticos não fascistas. Primeiramente, o artigo realiza um panorama dos pontos de referência mais importantes do New Age Circle: o pensamento político e económico de William ...

Dottorato di ricerca in Storia d'Europa: società, politica, istituzioni (XIX-XX secolo)