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Description:
Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- TABLES AND FIGURES -- ABBREVIATIONS -- PREFACE -- 1. The Socioeconomic Setting -- 2. A Modern Labor Force and Social Legislation -- 3. The Emergence of Modern Labor Organization -- 4. Early Development of the General Workers Union (UGT) -- 5. The Trials and Tribulations of Labor in Catalonia -- 6. Catholic Labor: Ecclesiastical Myopia and Disaster -- 7. Labor’s Coming of Age, 1915-1923 -- 8. The Shaping of Labor Relations under the Restoration -- 9. The Primo de Rivera Dictatorship, 1923–1930: A Janus-Faced Labor Policy -- 10.The Second Republic, 1931–1936 -- 11. Labor and the Civil War, 1936-1939 -- EPILOGUE -- BIBLIOGRAPHIC ESSAY -- NOTES -- Index
The Agony of Modernization fills a serious gap in the enigmatic and complex history of labor relations in Spain. Benjamin Martin uses a balanced and objective socioeconomic approach to define the evolution of the Spanish labor movement from the birth of trade unionism in the 1840s to its maturity today