Periodistas, tipógrafos y vendedores: de la organización al control obrero (1900-1936)

Antonio Laguna Platero; Francesc-Andreu Martínez Gallego

doi:10.70794/hs.113535

Authors

Antonio Laguna Platero Universitat de València https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1535-7382
Francesc-Andreu Martínez Gallego Universitat de València https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5996-1314

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.70794/hs.113535

Keywords:

Journalists, typographers, sellers, workers’ control, Estampa publishing

Abstract

This paper aims to analyze the changes experienced by three professions concerned with the transformation of the newspaper business in the first third of the 20th century: journalists, typographers and news vendors. It not only points out the ways of professionalization of these professions, but also the construction of union forms, different according to the case. The associative configuration of these trades will lead to a self-management experience when the Civil War begins. In the republican rearguard, workers’ control over the newspaper companies was established. Through the Estampa publishing house, we study the configuration of workers’ control and the convergence, not always harmonious, of the labour and trade union traditions of the three trades mentioned.

Author Biographies

Antonio Laguna Platero, Universitat de València

Professor of Journalism at the UV and Doctor in History. He is a member of the Research Group on the History of Communication and Media Culture (HISCOMECU). Between 2010 and 2016 he was Dean of the Faculty of Journalism at the University of Castilla-la Mancha. He has been president of the Association of Communication Historians and director of the journal Comunicación y Estudios Universitarios. His books include El Pueblo: historia de un diario republicano, 1894-1939 (1999), Vicente Miguel Carceller: el éxito trágico del editor de La Traca (2015), El negocio de la prensa en su historia iberoamericana (2018), Salud, sexo y electricidad. The beginnings of mass advertising (2018) or The imaginaries of the great epidemic of 1918. Fear and disinformation (2021).

Francesc-Andreu Martínez Gallego, Universitat de València

Professor of Journalism at the University of Valencia and Doctor of History. He directs the Research Group on the History of Communication and Media Culture (HISCOMECU). He was president of the Association of Communication Historians. He is a documentary film scriptwriter. He is the author of Conservar progresando: la Unión Liberal (1856-1868) (2001), Desarrollo y crecimiento: la industrialización valenciana, 1834-1914, (1995), Esperit d’associació: cooperativisme i mutualisme laics al País Valencià, 1834-1936 (2010), Historia social de la comunicación: mediaciones y públicos (2015), Leopoldo O’Donnell. Biografía breve (2017), El humor y la cultura política en la España contemporánea (2018), Samuel Ros, del humor nuevo a la camisa vieja (1905-1945) (2019) or El Trust. El periodismo industrial en España (1906-1936) (2020).