From insurance to Social Security: The "modernisation" of the concept and its limits during the first Francoist period.

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Keywords:

Social Security, Francoism, Beveridge, mutualism, Welfare State

Abstract

The study of social insurance and social security policies during the Franco dictatorship constitutes a historiographically marginal space, although its basic characteristics are known, specially in the aspects that underline the limitations of protection and its low intensity. Much less attention has been given to the intellectual transformations that encouraged and provided a certain theoretical support for transcendental reforms such as the one that inaugurated the Social Security Law of 1963. This article is interested in the penetration of the concept of social security in Spain after the World War II based on the analysis of a selection of works and relevant authors who published interpretations of its meaning before the reform. The counterpoint to the penetration of these new currents was raised by Falangism, whose particular model of social protection is also analysed in this research.

Author Biographies

Damián A. González Madrid, Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha

Professor of Contemporary History at the University of Castilla-La Mancha. Part of his research has been developed monographically on the transformations and social policies between the dictatorship and the democratic transition. His latest publications include his contribution to the books El Estado del bienestar: entre el franquismo y la transición (2020) and La transición exterior (2022).

Manuel Ortíz Heras, Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha

Professor of Contemporary History at the University of Castilla-La Mancha and coordinator of the Seminar for the Study of Francoism and the Transition (SEFT). Author and editor of books such as Movimientos sociales en la crisis de la dictadura y la transición: Castilla-La Mancha, 1969-1979 (2008), La Transición se hizo en los pueblos (2016), De la cruzada al desenganche: la Iglesia española entre el franquismo y la transición (2011), ¿Qué sabemos del franquismo? (2018), El estado del bienestar entre el franquismo y la transición (2020), L'adhésión de l'Espagne à la CEE, 1977-1986 (2020), Violencia franquista y gestión del pasado traumático (2021) and the recent La transición exterior (2022). He has published, among others, in the journals Historia Social and Pasado y Memoria. PI of the project Ciudadanía social y construcción del Estado del bienestar. La España meridional (1963-1986), HAR2017-83744-C3-P.

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Published

2024-03-26

Issue

No. 108 (2024)

Section

Estudios