The Grapes of Wrath: identity and Struggle of Spanish Seasonal Workers in the French Harvest, 1960-1977

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Keywords:

Temporary workers, vintage French, Spanish emigration, francoism

Abstract

Among many other, social and economic changes during the decade of the 50’s produced the increasing of economical emigration to Europe. Despite historiography has concentrated in the study of the population who moved permanently to new countries, there were a great number of Spaniards who abandoned their cities temporally with the French grape harvest as destination. This paper pretends to show the principal characteristics of the temporary workers, the traveling and working conditions. And, above all, know the social and political impact of this travels on the workers of this country and its possible repercussion on the fight against dictatorial government.

Author Biography

Sergio Molina García , Universidad Complutense de Madrid

Ph.D. from the University of Castilla-La Mancha (UCLM), member of the Seminar for the Study of Francoism and Transition (SEFT) and postdoctoral fellow Juan de la Cierva from January 2020 at the Complutense University of Madrid. He has worked on Franco-Spanish bilateral relations, democratization in Spain and the History of the College of Spain in Paris. He has published three monographs, has directed a collective work and has written articles in several specialized journals. He has made stays at the University of Nanterre and Sorbonne Université and organizes an annual meeting to promote Franco-Spanish relations. He was awarded the V prize for new researchers 2018 of the Association of Historians of the Present.

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Published

2024-02-09

Issue

No. 107 (2023)

Section

Estudios