The Spanish section of the International Association for the Legal Protection of Labor. Its publications and its influence

Abstract

This article begins with the creation and the objectives of the International Association for the Legal Protection of Workers (AIPLT) in the context of the first economic globalization. We include some biographical data of the leading members of the Spanish section of the AIPLT, to place this organization at the center of Spanish reformism. The central theme of the work deals with the Spanish section of the AIPLT as an institution for the exchange of legal-social information between the other national sections and the central one in Bern, to achieve a certain normative unification among the participating countries in the AIPLT. This informative exchange was of two directions: it was specified in the submission of information from the AIPLT on the legislative developments of the other countries with a national section, but also on the information sent by the Spanish section to its associates on the country's social policies. Based on various examples of this informative exchange, we found that the information sent by the Spanish section went beyond a simple legislative compilation and included relevant social aspects; on the other hand, based on these examples, we point out the influence that the information sent from the Bern headquarters could have on the development of Spanish reformism