From artisanal resistance to the struggle for citizenship. Collective action and socialist sociability: labor unions in Guadalajara (1900-1909
Abstract
In the first years of the 20th Century, socialist labor unions experienced a hard increase in Europe. In Spain, the labor unions related to the Unión General de Trabajadores created an associative and vindictive culture, which add to the old community and crafts’ custom the citizenship and modern mass politics’ languages and practices. The article analyses the trajectory of labor unions in Guadalajara, a little provincial capital near Madrid, between 1900 and 1909 and the role of neighbouring, professional and recreative sociability in its members’ politization. Despite the unfavourable environment of the town, labor unions displayed a dense associative net, an articulated strategy of collective action and a popular and municipalist profile
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