The split of a working-class city: urban space, immigration and anarchism in inter-war Barcelona, 1914-1936

Barcelona was the capital city of European anarchism during the inter-war years. The aim of this article is to discover the sociological and territorial features of the radicalized CNT (the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo), the anarchist union, which generated the summer 1936 revolution. By looki...

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Autor: Oyón Bañales, José Luis|||0000-0002-7155-257X
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2009
País:España
Institución:Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC)
Repositorio:UPCommons. Portal del coneixement obert de la UPC
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:upcommons.upc.edu:2117/19245
Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/2117/19245
https://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0963926808005993
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Cities and towns--History
Ciutats--Història
Àrees temàtiques de la UPC::Urbanisme::Aspectes socials
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Sumario:Barcelona was the capital city of European anarchism during the inter-war years. The aim of this article is to discover the sociological and territorial features of the radicalized CNT (the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo), the anarchist union, which generated the summer 1936 revolution. By looking at the role of urban space as a variable in the collective processes of the working class the article argues that the unskilled recent immigrant worker and the neighbourhoods where this working-class figure was dominant were the key protagonists of revolutionary radicalism.