A social history of Spanish labour : new perspectives on class, politics and gender

A social history of Spanish labour : new perspectives on class, politics and gender /

Focusing on organization, resistance and political culture, this collection represents some of the best examples of recent Spanish historiography in the field of modern Spanish labor movements. Topics range from socialism to anarchism, from the formation of the liberal state in the 19th century to t...

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Other Authors: Piqueras, José A., 1963- (Editor), Sanz Rozalén, Vicent (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Spanish
Published: New York : Berghahn Books, 2007.
Series:International studies in social history ; v. 11.
Subjects:
Working class > Spain > History.
Working class > Spain > Social conditions.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Labor.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Labor & Industrial Relations.
HISTORY > Modern > 20th Century.
Working class
Working class > Social conditions
Spain
History
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction. Traditional history and the new social history of labour in Spain / José A. Piqueras and Vicent Sanz Rozalén
  • The formation of the working class: a cultural creation / Manuel Pérez Ledesma
  • Women in the workplace in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Spain: methodological considerations / Pilar Pérez Fuentes
  • The 'hardest, most unpleasant' profession: the work of laundresses in eighteenth-, nineteenth- and twentieth-century Spain / Carmen Sarasúa
  • The toccata and fugue of the urban factory: working-class conflicts and work discipline in Valencia, 1840-1880 / Francesc A. Martínez Gallego
  • Craft work, industry and radical culture in the age of the first international / José A. Piqueras
  • 'Resistance, resistance, resistance!' skills and disputes in the castellón espadrille industry at the end of the nineteenth century / Vicent Sanz Rozalén
  • Traditional popular culture and industrial work discipline: Asturias, 1880-1914 / Jorge Uría
  • 'Rough characters': miners, alcohol and violence in Linares at the end of the nineteenth century / José Sierra Álvarez
  • Disputes, protest and forms of resistance in rural areas: Huesca, 1880-1914 / Carmen Frías Corredor
  • The standard of living of miners in Biscaye, 1876-1936 / Antonio Escudero
  • Republicans, socialists and anarchists: what revolution was that? / Javier Paniagua
  • The civil war
  • a class struggle? The difficult task of reconstructing the past / Julián Casanova
  • Subordination, supplies and mortality: The Montaña catalana, 1939-1945 / Joan Serrallonga
  • A fundamental instrument for labour-force control? Reflections on the vertical trade union organisation of the Franco Regime / José Babiano.

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