A Social History of Spanish Labour

José A. Piqueras is Professor of History at University Jaume I (Castellón-Spain) and has published widely on the development of civil societies, social movements and political culture in the 19th and 20th centuries. From 1988 has been the Editor of Historia Social.

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