Summary - TST 30

TRANSPORTES, SERVICIOS Y TELECOMUNICACIONES


TST 30

Antonio PLAZA PLAZA

El sindicalismo ferroviario en España: de las sociedades mutualistas a los sindicatos de clase (1870-1936)

 

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Key Words: Labour movement, rail unions, Spain, UGT (General Workers’ Union of Spain), CNT (National Confederation of Labour).

[ Abstract ]

The aim of this paper is to give the researcher and also the readers interested in railways a view on the social reality of this means of transport, specially the union struggles that the Spanish workers had to fight during the last third of the 19th century –when in Spain it is finished the construction of railways– and until the Civil War, with the opposition from governments and from the railways companies,, in order to reach the right to freedom of association with others, including the right to form and join trade unions, and to get wage increases and better working conditions.