@misc{10481/103447,
year = {2025},
month = {1},
url = {https://hdl.handle.net/10481/103447},
abstract = {This article analyses one of the main social policies in post-war Spain: the welfare policies of
Auxilio Social. In particular, it explores the conditions and daily operation of the Comedores Infantiles and Cocinas
de Hermandad run by that Falangist institution in Madrid in the immediate postwar period (1939 and 1940). This
work sustaines that the rations served in these charitable-assistance institutions were fewer, smaller, and of worse
quality than officially recognised. Therefore, the food given to the needy mothers and children at these Auxilio
Social premises was insufficient to quell their hunger. Moreover, since the facilities did not meet the minimum
conditions of size, cleanliness, ventilation, and kitchen utensils, the attendees were exposed to infectious diseases.
It is also argued that, beyond the food supply problems of those famine years, the ineffectiveness of the Comedores
and Cocinas was often due to the staff who worked in them, as they often used to steal food for their own
consumption or to sell on the black market. Finally, it is argued that, given its failure to feed the needy, Auxilio
Social’s aim of extending support to the dictatorship through the guise of charity was tarnished.},
abstract = {Este artículo analiza una de las principales políticas sociales de posguerra: el asistencialismo de
Auxilio Social. En particular, explora las condiciones y el funcionamiento cotidiano de los Comedores Infantiles y
las Cocinas de Hermandad de esta institución falangista en el Madrid de la inmediata posguerra (1939 y 1940). Se
sostiene la tesis de que las raciones servidas en estas instituciones benéfico-asistenciales eran menos, más pequeñas
y de peor calidad que las reconocidas oficialmente. Y que, por tanto, las madres y los niños asistidos no lograban
apagar su hambre tras su paso por estos locales de Auxilio Social. Al contrario, al no reunir las instalaciones unas
condiciones mínimas de tamaño, limpieza, ventilación o menaje los asistidos se exponían a contagios infecciosos.
Asimismo, se defiende que, más allá de los problemas de suministros en aquellos años de hambre, la responsa-
bilidad de la inoperancia de Comedores y Cocinas recayó a menudo en el personal que trabajaba en ellos, que
acostumbraba a sustraer alimentos para su consumo particular o para su desvío al mercado negro. Por último, se
sostiene que, dado su fracaso a la hora de dar de comer a los necesitados, el objetivo de Auxilio Social de extender
el consentimiento hacia la dictadura mediante el reclamo de la caridad se vio empañado.},
organization = {MCIN/AEI/10.13039/501100011033 IJC2020-046071-I},
organization = {European Union NextGenerationEU/PRTR},
organization = {BBVA Foundation},
organization = {PID2019-109470GB-I00},
organization = {Ministerio de Economía},
organization = {Universidad de Granada},
publisher = {Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, CSIC},
keywords = {Franco’s dictatorship},
keywords = {Post-war period},
keywords = {Hunger},
keywords = {Children},
keywords = {Social policies},
keywords = {Franquismo},
keywords = {Posguerra},
keywords = {Hambre},
keywords = {Niños},
keywords = {Políticas sociales},
title = {Mothers and children without bread. Hunger in the Auxilio Social Cocinas de Hermandad and Comedores Infantiles during post-war Francoism (1939-1940)},
doi = {10.3989/chdj.2024.521},
author = {Román Ruiz, Gloria},
}