TY - EJOUR AU - Luca Lambertini T1 - Community work nelle periferie urbane: l'Ente Gestione Servizio Sociale-Case per Lavoratori TT - AB - In Italy in the 1950s, there were created for the first time institutions in the sector of community work, offering social services. This work was managed by INA-Casa. In 1954 we see the birth of the first “social centres” and EGSS was founded. The article follows the birth of EGSS and it's political and ideological origins. It also analyses the demographical and social characteristics of the families helped by these services, and the position and activity of EGSS in the initial phase of a communitarian approach to housing and social services. AD - CY - Bologna DO - 10.1473/stor354