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Book Synopsis 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.
Trade Review “A collection of this sort is long overdue…This volume, edited by labour historians from two different generations, provides English-speaking readers with a sampler of the work in the field over the last two decades.” • Labour/Le Travail
Table of Contents Introduction: Traditional History and the New Social History of Labour in Spain
José A. Piqueras and Vicent Sanz Rozalén
Chapter 1. The Formation of the Working Class: A Cultural Creation
Manuel Pérez Ledesma
Chapter 2. Women in the Workplace in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Spain: Methodological Considerations
Pilar Pérez Fuentes
Chapter 3. The ‘Hardest, Most Unpleasant’ Profession: The Work of Laundresses in Eighteenth-, Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Spain
Carmen Sarasúa
Chapter 4. The Toccata and Fugue of the Urban Factory: Working-Class Conflicts and Work Discipline in Valencia, 1840–1880
Francesc A. Martínez Gallego
Chapter 5. Craft Work, Industry and Radical Culture in the Age of the First International
José A. Piqueras
Chapter 6. ‘Resistance, Resistance, Resistance!’ Skills and Disputes in the Castellón Espadrille Industry at the End of the Nineteenth Century
Vicent Sanz Rozalén
Chapter 7. Traditional Popular Culture and Industrial Work Discipline: Asturias, 1880–1914
Jorge Uría
Chapter 8. ‘Rough Characters’: Miners, Alcohol and Violence in Linares at the End of the Nineteenth Century
José Sierra Álvarez
Chapter 9. Disputes, Protest and Forms of Resistance in Rural Areas: Huesca, 1880–1914 Carmen
Frías Corredor
Chapter 10. The Standard of Living of Miners in Biscaye, 1876–1936
Antonio Escudero
Chapter 11. Republicans, Socialists and Anarchists: What Revolution Was That?
Javier Paniagua
Chapter 12. The Civil War – A Class Struggle? The Difficult Task of Reconstructing the Past
Julián Casanova
Chapter 13. Subordination, Supplies and Mortality: The Montaña catalana, 1939–1945
Joan Serrallonga
Chapter 14. A Fundamental Instrument for Labour-Force Control? Reflections on the Vertical Trade Union Organisation of the Franco Regime
José Babiano
Notes on Contributors
Index
