Red Barcelona: Social Protest and Labour Mobilization in the Twentieth Century

by Smith,Angel; Smith,Angel

• ISBN13: 9780415279055
• ISBN10: 0415279054
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-08-02
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Barcelona is now one of the most glamorous cities in Europe, renowned for itsmodernistaart and new post Olympic-games architecture. For much of the twentieth century, however, it was better known as the 'Catalan Manchester', the 'city of the bombs' and 'rose of fire'. This reflected both its importance as the leading industrial center of the Mediterranean and its revolutionary traditions, particularly the importance of anarchism within its labor movement. Interest has often focused on the barricades and revolts of 'Picasso's Barcelona' at the turn of the century and the great social revolution unleashed by the Civil War and chronicled by George Orwell. This book explores this 'red' or 'red and black' heritage, and how it has been transformed as the century has progressed. As one of Europe's great industrial and revolutionary centers Barcelona has been in need of a detailed social and cultural history, yet there is actually a paucity of detailed research. This book redresses the balance.Focusing on the entire twentieth century, it allows for the emergence of long-term trends, and deals with both classic and newer themes of labor history, such as: * Transformations within the labor process * The development of and splits within the organized labor movement * Gender and labor * The relationship between 'popular' and working-class protest, and labor and nationalism This novel and authoritative work will interest not only to those working on Spain, but all scholars and students of comparative history.

Table of Contents

List of tables	ix
List of figures	x
Notes on contributors	xi
Important abbreviations and acronyms	xiii
Barcelona through the European mirror: from red and black to claret and blue	1	(16)
Angel Smith
From subordination to contestation: the rise of labour in Barcelona, 1898-1918	17	(27)
Angel Smith
Red Barcelona in the Europe of war and revolution, 1914-30	44	(22)
Pere Gabriel
The new city and the anarchist movement in the early 1930s	66	(22)
Nick Rider
The crisis of organized labour: the battle for hegemony in the Barcelona workers' movement, 1930-6	88	(20)
Chris Ealham
The search for unity: Marxists and the trade-union movement in Barcelona, 1931-6	108	(19)
Andrew Durgan
Revolution and collectivizations in Civil War Barcelona, 1936-9	127	(15)
Antoni Castells Duran
Women workers in the Barcelona labour market, 1856-1936	142	(25)
Cristina Borderias
The Barcelona bourgeoisie, the labour movement and the origins of Francoist corporatism	167	(18)
Soledad Bengoechea
Workers and dictatorship: industrial growth, social control and labour protest under the Franco regime, 1939-76	185	(21)
Carme Molinero
Pere Ysas
The associational movement and popular mobilizations in L'Hospitalet: from the anti-Francoist struggle to democracy, 1960-80	206	(17)
Joan Camos
Clara C. Parramon
The working class and labour movement since the onset of democracy	223	(17)
Faustino Miguelez
Index	240