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-For context, it should be mentioned that in Italy in the ‘60s, the national average was of one death in the workplace per hour, and one accident per minute (by comparison, today we have 3 deaths per day and 800.000 accidents per year). So in the ‘60s, as the country is undergoing massive industrialization, the death toll for the workers was extremely heavy, the idea of a “class war” in this case really drives the point home here. And these were only numbers linked to direct deaths at work, without taking into consideration the indirect effects of environmental degradation and chronic conditions that begun to flare up at the time. 
+For context, it should be mentioned that in Italy in the ‘60s, the national average was of one death in the workplace per hour, and one accident per minute (by comparison, today we have 3 deaths per day and 800.000 accidents per year - source: http://salus.adapt.it/infortuni-e-morti-sul-lavoro-i-dati-dal-1951-al-1970/). So in the ‘60s, as the country is undergoing massive industrialization, the death toll for the workers was extremely heavy, the idea of a “class war” in this case really drives the point home here. And these were only numbers linked to direct deaths at work, without taking into consideration the indirect effects of environmental degradation and chronic conditions that begun to flare up at the time. 
 
 To address this scenario, political movements begun to focus on the key term *nocività* – translatable as 'noxiousness' in English. This choice of term is crucial: the struggles for health begun as the political questioning of its opposite – which these movements identified not in sickness nor in fitness, or the capacity to optimally perform work.