Nueva actitud obrera de desafío en los años sesenta en la provincia de Murciaconflictividad industrial y agraria
ISSN: 1579-3311, 2386-4745
Year of publication: 2006
Issue Title: España en los años 60
Issue: 5
Pages: 99-134
Type: Article
More publications in: Pasado y memoria: Revista de historia contemporánea
Abstract
The wave of workers' strikes that began at the start of the 1960s and grew in importance during the 1970s may in itself be regarded as a highly significant feature of the crisis of the Franco regime, and if there were many different forms of collective action as well a variety of participants, it must be stressed that of all these means of collective action, the workers' strikes were the most conspicuous both in terms of the large number of participants and their impact on economic life. In this climate of strikes and growing unrest, the dispute that began in the Asturian mining industry in 1962 should be emphasized, since it had a major influence throughout Spain, an example of which would be the industrial disputes that broke out in the mining area and in the Bazán naval construction company in Cartagena, which led to a genuine revival of the workers' movement in the industrial and agricultural sectors in the province of Murcia.