A Social History of Spanish Labour : : New Perspectives on Class, Politics, and Gender / / ed. by José A. Piqueras, Vicent Sanz-Rozalén.

• MitwirkendeR: Babiano, José,; Casanova, Julián,; Corredor, Carmen Frías,; Escudero, Antonio,; Fuentes, Pilar Pérez,; Gallego, Francesc A. Martínez,; Ledesma, Manuel Pérez,; Paniagua, Javier,; Piqueras, José A.,; Rozalén, Vicent Sanz,; Sarasúa, Carmen,; Serrallonga, Joan,; Uría, Jorge,; Álvarez, José Sierra,
• HerausgeberIn: Piqueras, José A.,; Sanz-Rozalén, Vicent,
• Place / Publishing House: New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2008]; ©2008
• Year of Publication: 2008
• Language: English
• Series: International Studies in Social History ; 11
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (336 p.)

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 the Civil War, and from women in the work place to the fate of the unions under Franco.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Introduction. Traditional History and the New Social History of Labour in Spain -- 1. The Formation of the Working Class: A Cultural Creation -- 2. Women in the Workplace in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Spain: Methodological Considerations -- 3. The ‘Hardest, Most Unpleasant’ Profession: The Work of Laundresses in Eighteenth-, Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Spain -- 4. The Toccata and Fugue of the Urban Factory: Working-Class Conflicts and Work Discipline in Valencia, 1840–1880 -- 5. Craft Work, Industry and Radical Culture in the Age of the First International -- 6. ‘Resistance, Resistance, Resistance!’ Skills and Disputes in the Castellón Espadrille Industry at the End of the Nineteenth Century -- 7. Traditional Popular Culture and Industrial Work Discipline: Asturias, 1880–1914 -- 8. ‘Rough Characters’: Miners, Alcohol and Violence in Linares at the End of the Nineteenth Century -- 9. Disputes, Protest and Forms of Resistance in Rural Areas: Huesca, 1880–1914 -- 10. The Standard of Living of Miners in Biscaye, 1876–1936 -- 11. Republicans, Socialists and Anarchists: What Revolution Was That? -- 12. The Civil War – A Class Struggle? The Difficult Task of Reconstructing the Past -- 13. Subordination, Supplies and Mortality: The Montaña catalana, 1939–1945 -- 14. A Fundamental Instrument for Labour-Force Control? Reflections on the Vertical Trade Union Organisation of the Franco Regime -- Notes on Contributors -- Index