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Author Piqueras, Jos A

Title A Social History of Spanish Labour : New Perspectives on Class, Politics, and Gender
Published New York : Berghahn Books, Inc., 2008

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Description 1 online resource (336 pages)
Series International Studies in Social History, 11
Contents A Social History of Spanish Labour; Table of Contents; Introduction; Chapter 1. The Formation of the Working Class; Chapter 2. Women in the Workplace in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Spain; Chapter 3. The 'Hardest, Most Unpleasant' Profession; Chapter 4. The Toccata and Fugue of the Urban Factory; Chapter 5. Craft Work, Industry and Radical Culture in the Age of the First International; Chapter 6. 'Resistance, Resistance, Restistance!'; Chapter 7. Traditional Popular Culture and Industrial Work Discipline; Chapter 8. 'Rough Characters'
Chapter 9. Disputes, Protest and Forms of Resistance in Rural AreasChapter 10. The Standard of Living of Miners in Biscaye, 1876-1936; Chapter 11. Republicans, Socialists and Anarchists; Chapter 12. The Civil War -- A Class Struggle?; Chapter 13. Subordination, Supplies and Mortality; Chapter 14. A Fundamental Instrument for Labour-Force Control?; Notes on Contributors; Index
Summary 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
Notes Print version record
Subject Working class -- Spain -- History
Working class -- Spain -- Social conditions
HISTORY / Europe / Spain & Portugal.
Working class.
Working class -- Social conditions.
Spain.
Genre/Form History.
Form Electronic book
Author Sanz Rozaln, Vicent
ISBN 9780857450401
0857450409