Origins Of The Labor Movement In Spain
The origins of the labor movement in Spain are located in Catalonia in the 1830s and 1840s, since it was the only place in Spain where there was a modern industry: the textile industry. There the first conflicts between workers and employers took place and there the first trade union — called "Friendly society, resistance societies" at the time — in the history of Spain, the Barcelona Weavers Association, was founded in 1840. The 1855 Catalan general strike, first general strike took place during the Bienio progresista, progressive biennium - a period of extension of the movement to other areas of Spain. By 1865, the 1865 Barcelona Workers' Congress, first Workers' Congress was held in Barcelona. After the triumph of the Glorious Revolution (Spain), Glorious Revolution, the right to freedom of association was recognized for the first time, which put an end, at least momentarily, to the persecutions and prohibitions that the incipient labor movement had suffered during the previou ...
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Catalonia
Catalonia (; ca, Catalunya ; Aranese Occitan: ''Catalonha'' ; es, Cataluña ) is an autonomous community of Spain, designated as a ''nationality'' by its Statute of Autonomy. Most of the territory (except the Val d'Aran) lies on the northeast of the Iberian Peninsula, to the south of the Pyrenees mountain range. Catalonia is administratively divided into four provinces: Barcelona, Girona, Lleida, and Tarragona. The capital and largest city, Barcelona is the second-most populated municipality in Spain and the fifth-most populous urban area in the European Union.Demographia: World Urban Areas
– Demographia, April 2018 Current day Catalonia comprises most of the medieval and early modern Principality o ...
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