El movimiento obrero durante el franquismo. De la resistencia a la movilización (1940-1975)

Abstract

The brutal francoist repression, together with the effects of war mobilisation and exile, had devastating effects on workers’ movement. However, socialists, communists and libertarians made an effort in order to create underground nets to prevent their complete disappearance. The workers, along with inevitable submission to the State and to employers, showed rejection and resistance attitudes as well as, sporadically, protest attitudes against imposed new life and work conditions. They also took advantage from francoist own legal system to defend their interests. From the beginning of the sixties a renewed workers’ movement, with CC.OO. as its main organized result and through growing social unrest, regained an important role in Spanish sociopolitical life, by which it contributed significantly to the dictatorship’s final crisis.