This comprehensive contemporary analysis by Professor Gaetano Salvemini of Mussolini's 'corporative' state its organisation and operation is intended for anyone interested in how fascism functioned in reality. Based almost exclusively on official Italian material and documents Salvemini's conclusions are damning: a fall in real wages, high unemployment, lowered living standards all of which had been claimed by the regime's fake news agencies and fascist apologists around the world as 'achievements' of the dictatorship.