Class Struggle, Dictatorship and Democracy : How the Common People Defeated Francoism (1939-1979)

• Main Author: Domènech, Xavier (Author)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York : Routledge, 2025.
• Series: Marx and Marxisms: new horizons.
• Subjects: Social conflict > Spain > History.; Dictatorship > Spain > History.; Democracy > Spain > History.; Spain > Politics and government > 1939-1975.; elektronické knihy; electronic books
• ISBN: 9781003600879; 1003600875; 9781032988405; 9781040320877; 1040320872; 9781032793504; 9781040321065; 1040321062
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (xiv, 312 pages).

In Class Struggle, Dictatorship and Democracy: How the Common People Defeated Francoism (1939-1979), historian Xavier Domènech Sampere tells the story of Franco's dictatorship, the struggle for freedoms and the foundations on which democracy was shaped. From the perspective of history from bel...

Table of Contents:

• 1. A New Beginning: Class Struggle2. Old Wine in New Bottles: Experience, Memories and Cultures in the Making of the Working Class under Francoism 3. The Other Side of the Spanish Miracle: Economic Change and the Emergence of the Labor Movement 4. Labor Conflict Under Francosim: Elements for an Interpretation 5. The Unexpected Factor: The Labor Movement and Political Change 6. Political Change: Class struggle, Francoism and Democracy 7. "The World Does Not Begin Today and We Are Not Starting From Scratch": The Crisis of Hegemony and Reorganization of the Employer Class 8. The Hour of Rebellion:One Employers' Organization to Rule Them All