Alessandro Rossi (21 November 1819 in Schio – 28 February 1898 in Santorso) was an Italian textile industrialist and politician.

When he became the chief of the family firm in 1845, he renewed the machinery of the wool mill, increasing its production capacity.

He was inspired by the ideas of Robert Owen and Sir Titus Salt and built a worker's colony called New Schio.

[2] Rossi overcame the depression of the 1870s establishing a system of autonomous managements, dividing his company into four divisions forbidden to compete internally and with a board of directors concentrated in Milan.

[6] Such as Souther agricultures, silk manufacturers, and Tuscan banks opposed to Rossi's propositions, he supported the creation of the Italian Cotton Association and the Mechanical and Metallurgical Workers Assembly.

[6] In 1876, Rossi fought Prime Minister Agostino Depretis' attempts of reducing tariffs and protectionism.

[6] By the late 1880s, Rossi supported a broader protectionist initiative, promoting protection for agriculture of Russia and American grains.

[2] In 1882, he promoted a political project that called for an alliance between industrialists, workers, and radical intellectuals to support stronger custom protections.