Includes bibliographical references (pages 427-539) and index.
Contents
The socioeconomic setting -- A modern labor force and social legislation -- The emergence of modern labor organization -- Early development of the General Workers Union (UGT) -- The trials and tribulations of labor in Catalonia -- Catholic labor : ecclesiastical myopia and disaster -- Labor's coming of age, 1915-1923 -- The shaping of labor relations under the Restoration -- The Primo de Rivera dictatorship, 1923-1930 : a Janus-faced labor policy -- The Second Republic, 1931-1936 -- Labor and the Civil War, 1936-1939.