Relative deprivation and labour conflict during Spain’s industrialization: the Bilbao estuary, 1914–1936

What drove social conflict in Spain’s industrial areas in the period before the Spanish Civil War? This paper is concerned with contrasting the determinants of working-class conflict in northern Spain at the beginning of the twentieth century. Our hypothesis is that the key determinant of conflicts...

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Published in:Cliometrica 2014-09, Vol.8 (3), p.335-369
Main Authors: Houpt, Stefan Oliver, Rojo Cagigal, Juan Carlos
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
20th century
Civil war
Collective action
Econometrics
Economic conditions
Economic history
Economic models
Economic statistics
Economic Theory/Quantitative Economics/Mathematical Methods
Economics
Economics and Finance
Estuaries
Families & family life
Family income
Finance
History
History of Economic Thought/Methodology
Income
Industrial development
Insurance
Interwar period
Labor relations
Living conditions
Management
Manual workers
Original Paper
Relative deprivation
Social classes
Socioeconomic factors
Statistics for Business
Strikes
Studies
Volatility
World War I
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Summary:What drove social conflict in Spain’s industrial areas in the period before the Spanish Civil War? This paper is concerned with contrasting the determinants of working-class conflict in northern Spain at the beginning of the twentieth century. Our hypothesis is that the key determinant of conflicts in emerging industrial areas during the interwar period was the struggle to obtain satisfactory family income in a context of combined high price fluctuation, unemployment and economic boom and bust. We suggest two new ways to decipher how economic factors interact with labour conflict. We introduce the family as the relevant income unit when considering wage struggles and relative deprivation. And secondly, we study the reactions to short-term variations of income on families by using monthly rather than quarterly or annual data.
ISSN:1863-2505
1863-2513
DOI:10.1007/s11698-013-0102-6