Spain

Spain
Author: Javier Tusell
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 519
Release: 2011-04-18
Genre: History
ISBN: 1444339745

This comprehensive survey of Spain’s history looks at the major political, social, and economic changes that took place from the end of the Civil War to the beginning of the twenty-first century. A thorough introduction to post-Civil War Spain, from its development under Franco and subsequent transition to democracy up to the present day Tusell was a celebrated public figure and historian. During his lifetime he negotiated the return to Spain of Picasso’s Guernica, was elected UCD councillor for Madrid, and became a respected media commentator before his untimely death in 2005 Includes a biography and political assessment of Francisco Franco Covers a number of pertinent topics, including fascism, isolationism, political opposition, economic development, decolonization, terrorism, foreign policy, and democracy Provides a context for understanding the continuing tensions between democracy and terrorism, including the effects of the 2004 Madrid Bombings

European Trade Unions

European Trade Unions
Author: Teresa Lawlor
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 271
Release: 2005-06-23
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1134698577

Trade unions in the European Union face an increasingly hostile environment, conditioned by growing globalization and structural changes in the European economies. This book considers the responses unions have been developing.

Policy Concertation and Social Partnership in Western Europe

Policy Concertation and Social Partnership in Western Europe
Author: Stefan Berger
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Total Pages: 404
Release: 2002-02
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9781571814944

Policy concertation - the determination of public policy by means of agreements struck between governments, employers and trade unions - continues to thrive in Western Europe despite the impact of liberalizing trends that were expected to lead to its demise. This volume brings together a team of 23 experts with the aim to undertake paired historical and political studies of policy concertation in ten West European countries, which were then subjected to systematic comparative analysis. It shows that overall the incidence of broad policy concertation in Western Europe can be explained by the changing configurations of just three variables.

Organización obrera y retorno a la democracia en España

Organización obrera y retorno a la democracia en España
Author: Robert M. Fishman
Publisher:
Total Pages: 335
Release: 1996
Genre: History
ISBN: 9788474762396

Este libro analiza el papel del sindicalismo en la transición a la democracia desde la perspectiva de unos autores que, según el argumento del texto, fueron claves en ese proceso: los líderes sindicales dentro de las empresas. Las tareas afrontadas por el movimiento obrero español y la tensión posible entre sus dos ejes fundamentales, el objetivo de transición política y el de expansión y consolidación organizativa por parte del sindicalismo, representan la problemática central del libro. Según una encuesta realizada entre presidentes de los comités de empresa en las provincias de Madrid y de Barcelona, el autor defiende las tesis de que la aportación fundamental del sindicalismo a la democracia en los años de la transición, y de la consolidación de la nueva democracia, no es la causa de las dificultades experimentadas por los sindicatos en sus esfuerzos organizativos y afiliativos. Los datos aquí analizados demuestran la amplitud del compromiso democrático dentro del movimiento obrero y también que las consecuencias múltiples y complejas del franquismo, la crisis económica de los años de transición y las actitudes de los propios trabajadores incidieron más que la estrategia o la disciplina política en las limitaciones afrontadas por el sindicalismo y las movilizaciones obreras.

Democracy in Mexico

Democracy in Mexico
Author: Pablo González Casanova
Publisher: New York : Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 272
Release: 1970
Genre: Mexico
ISBN:

Spain Transformed

Spain Transformed
Author: N. Townson
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 277
Release: 2007-07-12
Genre: History
ISBN: 0230592643

Spain Transformed addresses the sweeping social and cultural changes that characterized the late Franco regime. This wide-ranging collection reassesses the dictatorship's latter years by drawing on a wealth of new material and ideas, using an interdisciplinary approach.

Women and ETA

Women and ETA
Author: Carrie Hamilton
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Total Pages: 270
Release: 2007-07-15
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780719075452

At a time when conflicts in Europe, the Middle East and elsewhere are highlighting women's roles as armed activists and combatants, Women and ETA offers the first book-length study of women's participation in Spain's oldest armed movement.

The New Faces of Fascism

The New Faces of Fascism
Author: Enzo Traverso
Publisher: Verso Books
Total Pages: 209
Release: 2019-01-29
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1788730461

What is fascism in the twenty first century? What does Fascism mean at the beginning of the twenty-first century? When we pronounce this word, our memory goes back to the years between the two world wars and envisions a dark landscape of violence, dictatorships, and genocide. These images spontaneously surface in the face of the rise of radical right, racism, xenophobia, islamophobia and terrorism, the last of which is often depicted as a form of "Islamic fascism." Beyond some superficial analogies, however, all these contemporary tendencies reveal many differences from historical fascism, probably greater than their affinities. Paradoxically, the fear of terrorism nourishes the populist and racist rights, with Marine Le Pen in France or Donald Trump in the US claiming to be the most effective ramparts against "Jihadist fascism". But since fascism was a product of imperialism, can we define as fascist a terrorist movement whose main target is Western domination? Disentangling these contradictory threads, Enzo Traverso's historical gaze helps to decipher the enigmas of the present. He suggests the concept of post-fascism--a hybrid phenomenon, neither the reproduction of old fascism nor something completely different--to define a set of heterogeneous and transitional movements, suspended between an accomplished past still haunting our memories and an unknown future.