Railwaymen identities and esprit de corps in Spain, 1940-1965

Authors

  • Jairo Fernández Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne

Keywords:

Railwaymen, identities, core business process, operational interdependence, esprit de corps

Abstract

This article aims to show the internal fragmentation of the complex occupational community composed by Spanish railwaymen in the mid twentieth century; to ap-prehend the diverse identities that can be found within it and to unveil the problems that it posed to the direction of the companies. The argument slides through diffe-rent blocks and it leads us from the study of the job categories involved in the core business process that do develop a proper identity, to their operational interdepen-dency, to the analysis of the conflicts that arise between them and finally to the use of the esprit de corps as a mean to overcome those difficulties.