¡A LA HUELGA! Conflictos laborales y marcos políticos en España. Del Tardofranquismo a la Democracia

Abstract

We propose an analysis of the complex relationships between labor conflicts and political contexts. In their postimetries, the Franco´s dictatorship generated and entrenched conflicts, giving them an inevitable political dimension. The Transition was a way for the social pact, which lowered the polítical meaning or changed its senses. The economic crisis created emergencies that the dictatorship couldn’t resolve, but democracy neutralized, thanks to the neutralization of the political content of labor conflicts. The worker's protest in the convulsive years of industrial reconversion reached episodes of considerable virulence, but it lacked politically destabilizing effects. A cycle of general strikes between the end of the 1980s and the beginning of the 1990s turned the unions into major players in defining social policies, before their strength clearly declined in the following years. Apart from the general context it is the political context that gives meaning to social mobilization