Classes as Clients of the State

Landlords and Labourers in Andalusia

Dados Bibliográficos

ID2107915
AutoresGöran Djurfeldt (0000-0002-1139-2404, Lund University, autor correspondente)
Ano1993
Volume35
Fascículo1
Páginas159-182
Data de publicação1993-01-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoComparative Studies in Society and History (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0010-4175 • E-ISSN: 1475-2999
EditoraCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s0010417500018296
OpenAlexW2011059066
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas7
Referências citadas12

This is a study of landlordism, agricultural labourers, and the State of Andalusia in southern Spain. This region, a classical case of landlordism, deviates from the typically West European agrarian structure dominated by the family farm. Andalusia's history centers on the conflict over land between a majority of landless peasants and a minority of powerful landlords, which was one of the main causes of the Spanish civil war. This study deals with two periods covering nearly fifty years of this latifundist system and its conflictridden relations of production. It examines the freezing of the agrarian structure for nearly forty years by the dictatorship of Francisco Franco and the adaptation of social and agrarian policy for the next ten years by the socialists. In other words, this is the story of how the agricultural laborers of Andalusia were transformed in less than one-half century from 'peasants without land' to 'clients of the welfare state' dependent on the social policies of the state

Agrarian society · Agrarian structure · Agriculture · Archaeology · Development economics · Dictatorship · Economic history · Economic system · Economics · Economy · Geography · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Spanish Civil War · State (computer science) · Welfare state · Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development · Law