Las miserias del fascismo rural. Las relaciones laborales en la agricultura española, 1936-1948

Abstract

This article tries to explain the labour agrarian legislation designed by the "rebels" in the Civil War and by the Francoist regime in the first years of the dictatorship. The analysis of the legal dispositions approved between 1936 and 1948 will reveal at what extent the labour Francoist politics was indispensable for the implantation of the principle of "mastery of the big property", like other components of the agrarian policy of the early Francoism in the rural world. Also, the dictatorship assured the prom of the big owners with the politically repeated resource consisting in the wage containment and, especially, in the approval of a profuse regulatory legislation of the labour agricultural relationships. This way, the day labourers were remaining absolutely neglected, and condemned to the over-exploitation of the employers.