Corporatism and industrial relations in Spain: a history of work organization as a system of Social Policy

Abstract

This article realizes a historical approximation to the instrumental development of the Corporatism as a modality of Social Policy in Spain, and especially in relation to the industrial relations system. For it we establish five general phases in the technical definition the systems of executive management and of legislative representation, highlighting the impact of the theories centred on the idea of the "organized work”. For it, we introduce the philosophical keys, so much juridical as policies, of a phenomenon, not always warned, of relation between technology and policy; present phenomenon in the western societies, and that in case of the corporatism, it has generated and generates a social Policy determined by sociolabour criteria.