2. Women in the Workplace in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Spain: Methodological Considerations

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. Introduction. Traditional History and the New Social History of Labour in Spain 1
4. 1. The Formation of the Working Class: A Cultural Creation 19
5. 2. Women in the Workplace in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Spain: Methodological Considerations 43
6. 3. The ‘Hardest, Most Unpleasant’ Profession: The Work of Laundresses in Eighteenth-, Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Spain 64
7. 4. The Toccata and Fugue of the Urban Factory: Working-Class Conflicts and Work Discipline in Valencia, 1840–1880 92
8. 5. Craft Work, Industry and Radical Culture in the Age of the First International 106
9. 6. ‘Resistance, Resistance, Resistance!’ Skills and Disputes in the Castellón Espadrille Industry at the End of the Nineteenth Century 134
10. 7. Traditional Popular Culture and Industrial Work Discipline: Asturias, 1880–1914 153
11. 8. ‘Rough Characters’: Miners, Alcohol and Violence in Linares at the End of the Nineteenth Century 176
12. 9. Disputes, Protest and Forms of Resistance in Rural Areas: Huesca, 1880–1914 197
13. 10. The Standard of Living of Miners in Biscaye, 1876–1936 221
14. 11. Republicans, Socialists and Anarchists: What Revolution Was That? 241
15. 12. The Civil War – A Class Struggle? The Difficult Task of Reconstructing the Past 258
16. 13. Subordination, Supplies and Mortality: The Montaña catalana, 1939–1945 274
17. 14. A Fundamental Instrument for Labour-Force Control? Reflections on the Vertical Trade Union Organisation of the Franco Regime 298
18. Notes on Contributors 315
19. Index 317