Presupuestos de las familias trabajadoras del área de la Ría de Bilbao (Norte de España) en 1924

Abstract

The article reconstructs wages and expenses to estimate the budgets of urban working-class families with dependent minor children during the 1920s. The scope of the study is the metropolitan area of the Bilbao Estuary, considering its complex social and economic composition. Residential (Getxo) and industrial (Sestao) towns on both sides of the estuary were selected, as well as central and peripheral working-class district areas of the city of Bilbao. The primary source used is the municipal listings of inhabitants corresponding to these municipalities for the year 1924.