04346nam 22007575 450 991102615510332120251104130828.09781501745775150174577810.7591/9781501745775(CKB)4100000009678184(DE-B1597)534252(OCoLC)1129203541(DE-B1597)9781501745775(MiAaPQ)EBC31211892(Au-PeEL)EBL31211892(OCoLC)1438670596(EXLCZ)99410000000967818420191126d2019 fg engur||#||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierWorking-Class Organization and the Return to Democracy in Spain /Robert M. Fishman1st ed.Ithaca, NY :Cornell University Press,[2019]©19901 online resource (352 p.) 58 tables9780801420610 080142061X Frontmatter --Contents --Acknowledgments --Abbreviations --1. Introduction --2. Workplace Leaders and Union Organization --3. Who Are the Workplace Leaders? --4. The Opposition Labor Movement in Franco Spain --5. Labor and Political Transition --6. The Difficulty of Union-Building --7. Conflict or Accommodation --8. Conclusion --Afterword --Methodological Appendix --Bibliography --IndexFollowing the death of Francisco Franco in 1975, the long repressed Spanish labor movement faced two challenges: to contribute to the transformation of the national political system, and to use newly achieved freedoms to build its own organizational presence. Focusing on areas of potential conflict between these two broad objectives, Robert Fishman here traces the development of the complex political role and organizational development of the Spanish workers' movement in the transition from dictatorship to democracy.Drawing on rich empirical data including interviews with 324 plant-level labor leaders, Fishman examines the interplay between various unions' efforts to organize labor and to deal with national politics. He shows how the workers' movement, long an advocate of a ruptura or clear break with the Francoist past, came to support a process of negotiated reform and mobilizational restraint. Labor leaders' belief in the legitimacy of the democratic state, Fishman demonstrates, can serve as a key predictor of their willingness to support negotiated wage restraint.In emphasizing the crucial role of plant-level labor leaders in national political processes, Fishman offers an innovative methodological approach to the analysis of the collective efforts of labor. Political scientists, sociologists, historians of labor movements, and observers of contemporary Western Europe and Latin America will read it with interest.Labor unionsPolitical activitySpainHistory20th centuryRepresentative government and representationSpainHistory20th centuryWorking classSpainHistory20th centuryPolitical Science & Political HistorySpainPOLITICAL SCIENCE / Labor & Industrial RelationsbisacshSindicatsthubProletariatthubPolíticathubGovernthubParticipació políticathubSpainPolitics and government1975-EspanyathubLlibres electrònicsthubLabor unionsPolitical activityHistoryRepresentative government and representationHistoryWorking classHistoryPolitical Science & Political History.Spain.POLITICAL SCIENCE / Labor & Industrial Relations.SindicatsProletariatPolíticaGovernParticipació política322/.2/094609048Fishman Robert M.authttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut124554DE-B1597DE-B1597BOOK9911026155103321Working-Class Organization and the Return to Democracy in Spain4432676UNINA