Forced Labour in Franco's Spain: Workforce Supply, Profits and Productivity

Arbeitspapier

This article analyses the forced labour system created in Spain during the Civil War and maintained during the Francoist dictatorship, paying special attention to the economic logic that led the state and private enterprises to draw a profit from this kind of punishment. In order to deal with this question in depth my research has been focused on three main aspects: the workforce supply in a war economy and in a context of reconstruction, the margins of profit produced by this kind of labour in comparison with free labour, and the problems related to productivity levels. Through consideration of these questions I present an overview of the main research in the subject and make suggestions for new goals in Spanish economic history concerned with this kind of repressive practice, bringing it into line with international historiography on the forced labour economy.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: EHES Working Papers in Economic History ; No. 4

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Demand and Supply of Labor: General ; Economic History: Labor and Consumers, Demography, Education, Health, Welfare, Income, Wealth, Religion, and Philanthropy: Europe: 1913- ; Economic History: Government, War, Law, International Relations, and Regulation: Europe: 1913-
• Subject: forced labour ; war economy ; Spanish Civil War ; Franco's Dictatorship ; prison economy

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Gonzalo, Fernando Mendiola
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): European Historical Economics Society (EHES)
• (where): s.l.
• (when): 2011

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/246935
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:43 AM CET