La lucha de los "rabassaires": análisis de largo plazo de un movimiento social y político

Josep Colomé, Jordi Planas (j.planas@ub.edu) and Raimon Soler-Becerro

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Abstract: In 1964, Emili Giralt described the ‘rabassaire’ struggle in the late 19th century as “the most intense unrest in the Catalan countryside since the rebellion of the 'remences' in the 15th century”. As Giralt explained, this conflict subsided momentarily only to reappear in the 1920s with the creation of a peasant union, ‘Unió de Rabassaires’, which in the 1930s became the major organization in the Catalan countryside and led the way to the social and political struggle of the Catalan peasantry until the Civil War. We want to address this peasant struggle in the long-term. Following Charles Tilly, we understand this social movement as a form of political action which had an early period in the late 18th century and reached its maturity in the late 19th century and the early 20th century. Its development was shortened by the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War. Beyond the organizational changes arising from the different social and political situations, a new long-term overview can shed light to the continuities in this movement, especially in terms of building a social identity and legitimating its claims and its struggle.

Keywords: social movement; Charles Tilly; rabassaires; peasantry; social struggle; Catalonia (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: N53 N54 Q15 R52 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 24 pages
Date: 2016-05
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