Social Francoism and Labour Ministry (1939-1957)
Abstract
This article analyses the evolution of social Francoism between 1938 and 1957, from the enactment of the Labour Charter in the middle of the Civil War to the departure of José Antonio Girón de Velasco from the Labour Ministry. During this period, the regime, whose legitimacy proceeded exclusively from the result of a fratricide war, tried to present a legitimizing social image which would appeal to as many disaffected people as possible. Therefore, fearful of labour movement strength in the factories and conscious of the secondary paper of the trade union, it combined repression with a model of labour and social welfare developed by the Labour Ministry. The contrast between the dictatorship social discourse and the effective realisations of its social policy does not make those invisible but it allows contrast in the existence of a wide divider trench of narratives and effective results whom social Francoism traversed thanks to the atemporal resource of the propaganda.
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