The Red Dawn of the Andalusian Countryside: Peasant Protest during the ‘Bolshevik Triennium’, 1918–20
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Cobo Romero, FranciscoEditorial
Springer Nature
Materia
Andalusia Capitalist Agriculture Peasants Upheavals Rural Anarchism Rural Socialism Big Landownership
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2010-06Referencia bibliográfica
Romero, F.C. (2010). ‘The Red Dawn’ of the Andalusian Countryside: Peasant Protest during the ‘Bolshevik Triennium’, 1918–20. In: Salvadó, F.J.R., Smith, A. (eds) The Agony of Spanish Liberalism. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230274648_5
Resumen
The years 1918–20 were fundamental in the modern history of the
Andalusian peasant movement. The post-war economic dislocation and
the rocketing prices of basic commodities brought about by Spain’s neutrality
during the First World War resulted in a dramatic deterioration in
the living conditions of a vast legion of landless peasants (jornaleros or
braceros)1 from the south of the Iberian peninsula. In Andalusia, agrarian
capitalism made giant strides with the gradual incorporation of small
and medium-sized holdings into a market economy sustained by a large
and impoverished labour force.2 This made possible the rapid extension
in contractual relationships between jornaleros and small landowners
and sharecroppers resulting in higher numbers of disputes between
these groups due to the post-war inflationary cycle. Furthermore, in a
still poorly mechanized agricultural sector, the profits of the big landowners
depended on the maintenance of extremely low salaries. Better
pay demands from jornaleros, progressively more organized in trade
unions, were therefore systematically refused.