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Rural labour markets and rural conflict in Spain before the Civil War (1931-1936)

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dc.affiliation.institutoUC3M. Instituto Figuerola de Historia y Ciencias Socialeses
dc.contributor.authorDomènech Feliu, Jordi
dc.contributor.editorUniversidad Carlos III de Madrid. Departamento de Historia Económica e Instituciones
dc.date.accessioned2012-02-03T14:08:12Z
dc.date.accessioned2012-02-20T15:52:01Z
dc.date.available2012-02-20T15:52:01Z
dc.date.issued2012-01
dc.description.abstractThis paper looks at the causes of rural conflict in 1930s Spain. Rather than stressing bottom-up forces of mobilisation linked to poor harvests and rural unemployment or the inability of the state to enforce reformist legislation, this paper explores the role of state policy in sorting out the acute coordination and collective action problems of mobilising rural labourers. I do so by looking at the effects of intervention on rural labour markets in dry-farming areas of Spain (parts of Castile and of Andalusia). Given the difficulties of constructing a conclusive test of my hypothesis, I follow three indirect testing strategies. Firstly, I look at the qualitative evidence on the functioning of labour markets in dry-farming areas of Spain. Secondly, because my argument implies the existence of severe restrictions to the labour supply of rural labourers during the harvest in the early 1930s, I study the evolution of harvest-to-winter wage ratios before and after the passing of legislation. Thirdly, in order to show that alternative hypotheses to explain rural conflict are not consistent with the historical record, I study the diffusion of union offices and general strikes in the early 1930s in several dry-farming provinces of Spain
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dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10016/13202
dc.identifier.uxxiDT/0000000984
dc.language.isoeng
dc.relation.ispartofseriesWorking papers in Economic History
dc.relation.ispartofseries12-01
dc.rightsAtribución-NoComercial-SinDerivadas 3.0 España
dc.rights.accessRightsopen access
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/es/
dc.subject.ecienciaEconomía
dc.subject.ecienciaHistoria
dc.subject.jelN34
dc.subject.jelK31
dc.subject.jelJ22
dc.subject.jelJ31
dc.subject.jelJ38
dc.subject.jelJ43
dc.subject.jelJ51
dc.subject.jelJ52
dc.subject.jelJ61
dc.subject.otherAgricultural labour markets
dc.subject.otherCollective action
dc.subject.otherConflict
dc.subject.otherUnions
dc.subject.otherWage differentials
dc.subject.otherMigration
dc.subject.otherSpain
dc.titleRural labour markets and rural conflict in Spain before the Civil War (1931-1936)
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