Prisma cattolico e "legislazione sociale-operaia". Il gruppo della «Rivista internazionale di scienze sociali» al tempo di Giuseppe Toniolo

At the end of the XIX and the beginning of the XX century the Catholic "Rivista internazionale di scienze sociali e discipline ausiliarie" paid significant attention to Italian public debate about labour and social legislation, conveying a point of view which seemed relatively "progressive" inside Italian Catholicism. The prism of the periodical in analyzing Italy's nascent Welfare State was that of subsidiarity: public intervention had to fix issues where the private sector clearly appeared unable to achieve results for the common good on its own. Giuseppe Toniolo was the main figure among this group, together with those young Christian-Democrats who where influenced by Romolo Murri's ideas.