The Origins of Fiat
This is the city where the first Fiat plant was built.
What is Turin?
This is the region where Turin is located.
What is Piedmont(Piemonte)?
This world war boosted Fiat’s growth due to wartime production.
What is World War I?
Many Fiat workers in the post-war period came from this region.
What is Southern Italy?
Fiat is now part of this global automobile group.
What is Stellantis?
This was the year Fiat was founded. (2 years margin of error)
What is 1899?
This river flows through Turin and supported its industrial growth.
What is the Po?
This decade saw the birth of the iconic Fiat 500.
What is the 1950s (more precisely 1957)?
This was a typical type of housing built for Fiat workers in Turin.
What is public housing?
This is the city where Fiat’s legal headquarters are now located.
What is Amsterdam?
This is what the acronym FIAT stands for.
What is “Fabbrica Italiana Automobili Torino”?
This Turin neighborhood is famous for Fiat’s factories.
What is Mirafiori?
This kind of factory was organized following Fordist principles.
What is an assembly line?
This derogatory term was often used for southern migrant workers.
What is “terrone”?
During this global phase, many Italian factories shut down or relocated.
What is globalization (2000s)?
He was one of Fiat’s founders and is considered its pioneer.
Who is Giovanni Agnelli?
Besides cars, this was an important industrial sector in Turin in the 1900s.
What is aeronautics (or textiles)?
This major strike in the 1980s involved Fiat workers.
What is the March of the 40,000 (1980)?
This Italian film portrayed working-class life in Turin in the ‘60s–‘70s.
What is “The Working Class Goes to Heaven”?
This union played a major role in Fiat’s labor strikes.
What is FIOM?
This was the first car model produced by Fiat.
What is the 3½ HP?
This international event in 1961 celebrated industry in Turin.
What is the International Labor Exhibition (Italia ’61)?
This was the year Fiat acquired Chrysler.
What is 2009?
This Italian book that talks about the division between north and south
What is “Christ Stopped at Eboli”?
He was the Fiat CEO who revived the company in the 2000s.
Who is Sergio Marchionne?