A social history of Spanish labour : new perspectives on class, politics and gender /: new perspectives on class, politics and gender. (2007)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by José A. Piqueras and Vicent Sanz Rozalén ; translated by Paul Edgar.
• Editors: Piqueras, José A, 1963-; Sanz Rozalén, Vicent
• Contents: Introduction. Traditional history and the new social history of labour in Spain / José A. Piqueras and Vicent Sanz Rozalén -- The formation of the working class: a cultural creation / Manuel Pérez Ledesma -- Women in the workplace in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Spain: methodological considerations / Pilar Pérez Fuentes -- The 'hardest, most unpleasant' profession: the work of laundresses in eighteenth-, nineteenth- and twentieth-century Spain / Carmen Sarasúa -- The toccata and fugue of the urban factory: working-class conflicts and work discipline in Valencia, 1840-1880 / Francesc A. Martínez Gallego -- Craft work, industry and radical culture in the age of the first international / José A. Piqueras -- 'Resistance, resistance, resistance!' skills and disputes in the castellón espadrille industry at the end of the nineteenth century / Vicent Sanz Rozalén -- Traditional popular culture and industrial work discipline: Asturias, 1880-1914 / Jorge Uría -- 'Rough characters': miners, alcohol and violence in Linares at the end of the nineteenth century / José Sierra Álvarez -- Disputes, protest and forms of resistance in rural areas: Huesca, 1880-1914 / Carmen Frías Corredor -- The standard of living of miners in Biscaye, 1876-1936 / Antonio Escudero -- Republicans, socialists and anarchists: what revolution was that? / Javier Paniagua -- The civil war -- a class struggle? The difficult task of reconstructing the past / Julián Casanova -- Subordination, supplies and mortality: The Montaña catalana, 1939-1945 / Joan Serrallonga -- A fundamental instrument for labour-force control? Reflections on the vertical trade union organisation of the Franco Regime / José Babiano.
• Publisher Details: New York : Berghahn Books
• Publication Date: 2007
• Extent: 1 online resource (vi, 330 pages), illustrations
• Subjects: 331.0946; Working class -- Spain -- History; Working class -- Spain -- Social conditions; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Labor; POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Labor & Industrial Relations; HISTORY -- Modern -- 20th Century; Working class; Working class -- Social conditions; Spain; Electronic books; History
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780857450401; 0857450409
• Related ISBNs: 9781845452964; 1845452968
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Print version record.
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.