1st Edition

Class Struggle, Dictatorship and Democracy How the Common People Defeated Francoism (1939-1979)

By Xavier Domènech Sampere Copyright 2025
326 Pages 7 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

326 Pages 7 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

326 Pages 7 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

In Class Struggle, Dictatorship and Democracy: How the Common People Defeated Francoism (1939–1979) , historian Xavier Domènech Sampere tells the story of Franco’s dictatorship, the struggle for freedoms and the foundations on which democracy was shaped. From the perspective of history from below and based on the analysis of the class struggle, Domènech offers not only a fascinating insight into... Read more

1. A New Beginning: Class Struggle  2. Old Wine in New Bottles: Experience, Memories and Cultures in the Making of the Working Class under Francoism  3. The Other Side of the Spanish Miracle: Economic Change and the Emergence of the Labor Movement  4. Labor Conflict Under Francosim: Elements for an Interpretation  5. The Unexpected Factor: The Labor Movement and Political Change  6. Political Change: Class struggle, Francoism and Democracy  7. “The World Does Not Begin Today and We Are Not Starting From Scratch”: The Crisis of Hegemony and Reorganization of the Employer Class  8. The Hour of Rebellion: One Employers' Organization to Rule Them All

Biography

Xavier Domènech Sampere is a historian and associate professor at the Autonomous University of Barcelona. With more than a dozen books published, he is one of the leading specialists in the social and political history of the dictatorship and the transition in Spain.

E.P. Thompson would love this book.

Harvey J. Kaye, author of The British Marxist Historians