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E-book Franco's Internationalists : Social Experts and Spain's Search for Legitimacy

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In May 1951, Francisco Franco attended an international social security congressin Madrid. In the audience were experts and officials from across Spain, LatinAmerica, and western Europe, including ministers from various foreign govern-ments and representatives from international bodies such as the InternationalLabour Organization (ILO). Addressing the conference, Franco told delegates thattwo factors had come to dominate modern politics.‘One is the social factor,’hedeclared,‘which has imprinted its character on our entire era.’Despite thedevastation caused by the civil war, Franco argued, Spain had come to defineitself as a‘social state’, one in which‘all of the nation’s resources’were dedicated toimproving social conditions. The‘New State’established after the Spanish CivilWar was underpinned by the labour laws, sickness insurance, infant healthprovision, and housing programmes the regime had introduced. In this regardSpain was at the forefront of developments which defined the modern world.Whereas in the past many states, particularly liberal democracies, had ignored thesocial needs of the people, today‘all politics is becoming social’.¹The second, related factor was‘the relations between peoples, which, breachingthe walls of the old borders, unite us in our fears, in our sorrows, or in ourwellbeing’.² In an age of increasing global integration and interdependence,Franco argued, poor social conditions in one country could prevent the pursuitof social progress in another. And many of the challenges facing the modern worldstemmed from the vast differences in living standards between rich and poorstates. Countries now needed to work together to ensure all of humankind enjoyedbasic levels of social security. Spain, Franco stressed, was committed to inter-national cooperation. Its own pursuit of social justice meant it was ready to showthe rest of the world the way forward. For Franco and his regime, social develop-ment and international cooperation were two sides of the same coin.The regime had come to power during the civil war of 1936–9, sparked by anarmy-ledcoup d’étatagainst the democratic institutions of the Second Republicwhich had been formed justfive years earlier. Franco had consolidated hispersonal rule over the course of the civil war, and by the time of his speech in 1951 had ruled unopposed as Spain’sCaudilloand head of state for over a decade.Although the speech extolled the‘titanic efforts made over the last ten years toachieve social development and social security in our country’, Francoist rule hadin reality been characterized by repression, violence, hunger, and social hardship.

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Judul Seri

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No. Panggil

946 BRY f

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London : Oxford University Press., 2019

Deskripsi Fisik

215 hlm

Bahasa

English

ISBN/ISSN

9780198834595

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946

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text

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computer

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online resource

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History of Modern Iberian Peninsula, Spain

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