Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of contributor
- Acknowledgements
- List of abbreviations
- Introduction
- The formation of the French Popular Front, 1934–6
- The origins and nature of the Spanish Popular Front
- The French Radicals, Spain and the emergence of appeasement
- The Spanish army and the Popular Front
- Soldiers and Socialists: the French officer corps and leftist government, 1935–7
- The Spanish Church and the Popular Front: the experience of Salamanca province
- ‘La main tendue’, the French Communist Party and the Catholic Church, 1935–7
- Trotskyist and left-wing critics of the Popular Front
- The development of marxist theory in Spain and the Frente Popular
- The other Popular Front: French anarchism and the Front Révolutionnaire
- The French Popular Front and the politics of Jacques Doriot
- The Blum government, the Conseil National Economique and economic policy
- Social and economic policies of the Spanish left in theory and in practice
- Women, men and the 1936 strikes in France
- From clientelism to communism: the Marseille working class and the Popular Front
- A reinterpretation of the Spanish Popular Front: the case of Asturias
- Le temps des loisirs: popular tourism and mass leisure in the vision of the Front Populaire
- The educational and cultural policy of the Popular Front government in Spain, 1936–9
- French intellectual groups and the Popular Front: traditional and innovative uses of the media
- Index
Social and economic policies of the Spanish left in theory and in practice
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 25 October 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of contributor
- Acknowledgements
- List of abbreviations
- Introduction
- The formation of the French Popular Front, 1934–6
- The origins and nature of the Spanish Popular Front
- The French Radicals, Spain and the emergence of appeasement
- The Spanish army and the Popular Front
- Soldiers and Socialists: the French officer corps and leftist government, 1935–7
- The Spanish Church and the Popular Front: the experience of Salamanca province
- ‘La main tendue’, the French Communist Party and the Catholic Church, 1935–7
- Trotskyist and left-wing critics of the Popular Front
- The development of marxist theory in Spain and the Frente Popular
- The other Popular Front: French anarchism and the Front Révolutionnaire
- The French Popular Front and the politics of Jacques Doriot
- The Blum government, the Conseil National Economique and economic policy
- Social and economic policies of the Spanish left in theory and in practice
- Women, men and the 1936 strikes in France
- From clientelism to communism: the Marseille working class and the Popular Front
- A reinterpretation of the Spanish Popular Front: the case of Asturias
- Le temps des loisirs: popular tourism and mass leisure in the vision of the Front Populaire
- The educational and cultural policy of the Popular Front government in Spain, 1936–9
- French intellectual groups and the Popular Front: traditional and innovative uses of the media
- Index
Summary
The Popular Front electoral pact in Spain was negotiated between the representatives of the republican groups and those of the Socialist Party (PSOE). The latter were also acting on behalf of the other working-class organizations which would eventually subscribe to the pact. During the negotiations specific political and social measures were discussed. Leaving aside those which were rejected outright – such as the nationalization of land and banks – this essay will concentrate on the measures over which agreement was reached. For these would form the basis of the future government's programme.
The political amnesty was just such a measure, discussed in connection with the reinstatement of workers dismissed because of the events of October 1934. The republicans claimed to be sympathetic towards them, but with one proviso: neither the workers who had taken the jobs of those dismissed nor those employers who had acted without political malice should be victimized. The socialist representatives, on the other hand, stood firm on this point, possibly because reinstatement was the only union (UGT) proposal in a programme which had been drafted by the PSOE executive. In the public sector, it was left up to those formulating the legislation to finalize the policy on reinstatement. In the private sector, cases would be submitted to the jurados mixtos, the arbitration committees on which workers, management and government were all represented.
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- The French and Spanish Popular FrontsComparative Perspectives, pp. 171 - 184Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1989
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