Identify to regulate. Meanings and practices of social assistance in republican Madrid.

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Keywords:

Urban politics, Second republic, Unemployment, Social assistance

Abstract

The aim of this article is to analyse the features and meanings of the municipal policies developed during the Second Republic in Madrid in order to set in motion formal mechanisms of social assistance around two closely interconnected issues within the urban sphere: poverty and unemployment. Relying on several unreleased records of Madrid City Council, this paper will discuss about the way in which both problems were officially conceptualised and addressed through practical applications. In order to fulfil this purpose, we analyse the social classifications and the empirical procedures that civic authorities articulated to identify and regulate the population groups that, driven by poverty, were liable to receive the social aids granted at a local level.

Author Biographies

Santiago Miguel Salanova, Universidad Complutense de Madrid

Ph.D. in History from the Complutense University of Madrid and postdoctoral fellow attached to the Programa de Atracción de Talento de la Comunidad Autónoma de Madrid since April 2018. His lines of research include social history and the history of political mobilization in the Madrid of the Democratic Sexenio and the Restoration. He is the author of the books Madrid, sinfonía de una metrópoli europea, 1860-1936 (2016), epublicanos y socialistas. El nacimiento de la acción política municipal en Madrid, 1891-1909 (2017) and Madrid, un laboratorio de socialismo municipal (1900-1936) (2019). He has received the award of the Social History Association and the Earl J. Hamilton prize for the best Spanish article in foreign language in Economic History awarded by the AEHE.

Fernando Vicente Albarrán, Universidad de Salamanca

D. in Contemporary History with European mention, he is currently Assistant Professor at the Complutense University of Madrid. He has been Professor of History and Civilization of Spain and Latin America at the Université Paris IV-Sorbonne, between 2011 and 2013, and postdoctoral researcher at the Institut d'Études Politiques - Sciences Po Lyon, between 2014 and 2017. He has obtained the Best Dissertation award for the best research paper in Spanish History granted in 2014 by the Association for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies, and the Young Researcher award, granted in 2015 by the Contemporary History Association for the best paper in Contemporary History by an author under 35 years old. His lines of research have revolved around the reflection on the shaping of the urban world between the 19th and 20th centuries.

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Published

2024-02-09

Issue

No. 106 (2023)

Section

Estudios