This businesslike structure allows for the Sicilian Mafia to gain control over small towns throughout Sicily giving the local people and local government no chance to exterminate the Mafia. Although the government has tried to intervene before to exterminate the Mafia from Sicily, it has never been fully effective. The Mafia thrives off of filling the gaps that the government does not which is why the most effective attempt to rid Sicily of the Mafia was during Mussolini’s ruling during World War II. The Mafia does not operate well under fascist control because in a fascist political system the dictator controls everything and if the dictator controls everything than there is no room for the Mafia to control anything. Luckily for the Mafia, fascism never really caught on in Sicily until Mussolini sent military forces into Sicily to regain control of the region and imprison all Mafiosi.
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“Between 1880 and 1900, the number of Italians in New York city leaped from 20,000 to 250,000.” (Reppetto 18) Most of these immigrants came from southern Italy where the idea of a unified Italy had yet to take hold. Although the Mafia itself might not have made the journey from Sicily to American, the idea of the Mafia had. Although there is no set date for the formation of the American Mafia, prohibition is credited as being the most important turning point for the American Mafia. Prohibition put a once legal industry into the hands of the Mafia, allowing them to make millions of illegal dollars, thus giving them the opportunity to solidify their place and power within a city. The reason the American Mafia was so successful in taking advantage of the opportunity Prohibition gave them was the fact that not only did the idea of the mafia make its way from Italy to America but also the structure of how the Mafia works and the businesslike approach that the Mafia takes
“Between 1880 and 1900, the number of Italians in New York city leaped from 20,000 to 250,000.” (Reppetto 18) Most of these immigrants came from southern Italy where the idea of a unified Italy had yet to take hold. Although the Mafia itself might not have made the journey from Sicily to American, the idea of the Mafia had. Although there is no set date for the formation of the American Mafia, prohibition is credited as being the most important turning point for the American Mafia. Prohibition put a once legal industry into the hands of the Mafia, allowing them to make millions of illegal dollars, thus giving them the opportunity to solidify their place and power within a city. The reason the American Mafia was so successful in taking advantage of the opportunity Prohibition gave them was the fact that not only did the idea of the mafia make its way from Italy to America but also the structure of how the Mafia works and the businesslike approach that the Mafia takes