Corporatism
Appearance
Political system in which representance is given to single workers' or professionals' cathegories.
In italian Fascism the Corporativismo was and adding representative parliamentar corpus. The corporative deputees were admitted to the "Camera dei Fasci e delle Corporazioni", one of the two Chambers (the other one being the Senato).
Corporations were in medieval Italy the "borghesia", the middle-class social entity that expressed in facts a sort of control over the king's politics and policies.
Thery were then collected in "Corporazioni di Arti e Mestieri".