The Ministry of Labor in the Second Spanish Republic (1931-1939)
Abstract
In the first republican biennium, the Minister of Labor, Francisco Largo Caballero, promoted a program of social improvements based on projects developed by the ILO since 1919. The fleeting nature of governments and ministries does not prevent the implementation, in part, of this program, whose objectives: they are: immediate improvements for workers, a progressive reform of the labor relations system, through the instruments of social security, mediation and worker representation, and a modernization of social security and health. Projects that, in a second biennium, suffer attacks to limit their scope and consequences. The Civil War (1936-1939), with its duplicity of governments and programs, and the defeat of the Second Republic, truncated a model of social modernization, which also spread across Europe. Spain returns to the welfare, authoritarian and corporatist model of European fascisms and the most modernizing project is truncated in it, which will be at the base of the social and welfare states that spread through Europe in the second post-world war
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