Policía rural y mercados de trabajo agrario en la Segunda República española: el caso de Santa Marta (Badajoz), 1931-1936

Sergio Riesco Roche and Francisco J. Rodríguez Jiménez
Additional contact information
Sergio Riesco Roche: Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
Francisco J. Rodríguez Jiménez: Universidad de Salamanca

Historia Agraria. Revista de Agricultura e Historia Rural, 2016, issue 70, 101-130

Abstract: Instrumental in supporting the agricultural reforms enacted during the Second Republic, the regulations on compulsory cultivation and the Rural Police Commission exhibited both positives and negatives. This article reveals details of events related to this Commission in the town of Santa Marta, in the province of Badajoz. The full minutes of the executive meetings of this organisation have been preserved in the Municipal Archives, a rather exceptional circumstance as in most cases they have entirely disappeared. Up until now, historiography has been silent on many aspects of the Rural Police Commission, such as its constitution, its relationship with the political life of the period, the kind of agricultural plantations that its mandate covered, the effectiveness of its actions, the reactions and hopes it awakened among owners and workers, etc. We try to address these matters by cross-referencing the aforementioned local documentation with the national legal corpus on rural police institutions. The analysis is completed by comparing the evidence in this case with data from institutional economics.

Keywords: Spanish Second Republic; Agrarian reforms; Social conflicts (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D02 O17 Q15 Q34 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
http://repositori.uji.es/xmlui/bitstream/handle/10 ... quence=1&isAllowed=y (application/pdf)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:seh:journl:y:2016:i:70:m:december:p:101-130

Access Statistics for this article

Historia Agraria. Revista de Agricultura e Historia Rural is currently edited by Vicente Pinilla

More articles in Historia Agraria. Revista de Agricultura e Historia Rural from Sociedad Española de Historia Agraria Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Vicente Pinilla ().