The setting up of the Escuela Sindical in 1948: An initiative of the francoist syndicates for worker's indoctrination.

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Keywords:

Francoism, Trade Union Organization, Syndical School, Fernín Sanz-Orrio, Mariano Navarro-Rubio

Abstract

This article offers a study about the Escuela Sindical, an institution founded in 1948 by Fermín Sanz-Orrio (then Head of the Organización Sindical), which specialised in the training of trade union cadres. It had two main objectives: to disseminate the principles of the National Movement among workers, and to contribute to the process of promoting Christian-social postulates within official trade unionism. As the latter was to be a source of conflict, the study of the first years of activity of the Escuela Sindical constitute a good case study on the tensions between the different tendencies within Franco’s dictatorship.

Author Biography

José Manuel Ferrary Merino , Universidad Internacional de la Rioja

Graduate in History from the University of Navarra (2016), MA in Contemporary History and Politics from Birkbeck College, University of London (2017) and PhD in History from the University of Navarra (2022) with a thesis entitled Mariano Navarro Rubio: una biografía política (1913-2001). Auge y caída en el Régimen de Franco. He is part of the Research Group in Recent History at the University of Navarra, and currently works as a researcher and lecturer for the International University of La Rioja.

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Published

2024-03-26

Issue

No. 108 (2024)

Section

Estudios