{"product_id":"making-democracy-in-spain-grass-roots-struggle-in-the-south-1955-1975-hardback-9780521354066","title":"Making Democracy in Spain; Grass-Roots Struggle in the South, 1955–1975 (Hardback) 9780521354066","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eMaking Democracy in Spain\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eGrass-Roots Struggle in the South, 1955–1975\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe story of the unsung heroes whose struggles prepared the transition to democracy in Spain.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eJoe Foweraker (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780521354066, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 28 July 1989\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e302 pages\u003cbr\u003e23.4 x 15.2 x 2.5 cm, 0.57 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"...Professor Joe Foweraker takes an interesting and insightful, yet controversial, look at how events and events at the grassroots of society helped lay the foundation for democracy.\"   Thomas D. Lancaster, Bulletin of the Society for Spanish and Portuguese Studies\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eThis book, exploring the making of democracy in Spain during the twenty long years before the death of Franco, seeks out the beginnings of democratic struggles at the grass roots of civil society. Rather than one more account of the transition to democracy in Spain, this is the story of the countless unsung heroes who prepared the political terrain of this transition. The story suggests that it was social needs and economic demands which spawned individual discontent and political dissent, but that the struggle itself required continual political organization and calculation. The book therefore explores the personal networks and political strategies which sustained the struggle, and reveals that their contribution to the making of democracy was often contradictory and always piecemeal. Democratic struggle is not defined by a single idea of democracy, but by myriad attempts to achieve more autonomous action and more effective forms of representation.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePreface\u003cbr\u003e Introduction: personal networks, political strategies and the making of democracy\u003cbr\u003e Part I. Personal Networks, Political Traditions and State Policies: 1. Unquiet hearts: the primitive world of the first political men\u003cbr\u003e 2. The burden of hopes and hatreds: ideological traditions in clandestine circumstance\u003cbr\u003e 3. Oligarchic unity and working-class divisions: a political economy of El Marco de Jerez\u003cbr\u003e 4. Political clans and capitalist planning: a political economy of Francoism\u003cbr\u003e Part II. Syndical Practices, Social Struggles and Political Protests: 5. The vertical syndicate: the mainstay of Franco's corporatist strategy\u003cbr\u003e 6. The workers' commissions: the national picture compared with the movement in El Marco de Jerez\u003cbr\u003e 7. Wage contracts, labour conflicts and political protests: the syndical practices of the labour movement\u003cbr\u003e Part III. Political Practices, Repression and Strategic Responses: 8. The revolutionary paradox: the changing political line of the Spanish Communist Party\u003cbr\u003e 9. A place in the struggle: personal networks and political practices in El Marco de Jerez\u003cbr\u003e 10. The other side of darkness: the repressive practices of the Franco regime\u003cbr\u003e 11. Contingent connections: the relationship between the workers' commissions and the Spanish Communist Party\u003cbr\u003e 12. Fighting with two faces: the strategic combination of legal and clandestine spaces\u003cbr\u003e Part IV. Political Strategies and the Democratic Project: 13. Democratic transformation and the transition to democracy: the political project of the labour movement, 1955–85\u003cbr\u003e 14. Corporatist strategies and the transition to democracy: the institutional terrain of the struggle\u003cbr\u003e 15. Personal networks and political strategies: Spanish civil society in the struggle for democracy\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e Index.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Postwar 20th century history, from c 1945 to c 2000 [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Postwar 20th century history, from c 1945 to c 2000\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Postwar%2020th%20century%20history,%20from%20c%201945%20to%20c%202000%20%5BHBLW3%5D%22\"\u003eHBLW3\u003c\/a\u003e], European history [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on European history\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22European%20history%20%5BHBJD%5D%22\"\u003eHBJD\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45913318392088,"sku":"9780521354066","price":51.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9780521354066i_99e337fd-dda1-4d88-a67e-64f09b371c80.jpg?v=1691375610","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/making-democracy-in-spain-grass-roots-struggle-in-the-south-1955-1975-hardback-9780521354066","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}