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- Title
Policía rural y mercados de trabajo agrario en la Segunda República española: el caso de Santa Marta (Badajoz), 1931-1936.
- Authors
ROCHE, SERGIO RIESCO; RODRÍGUEZ JIMÉNEZ, FRANCISCO J.
- Abstract
Instrumental in supporting the agricultural reforms enacted during the Second Republic,the regulations on compulsory cultivation and the Rural Police Commission exhibited both positives and negatives.This article reveals details of events related to this Commission in the town of Santa Marta, in the province of Badajoz.The full minutes of the executive meetings of this organisation have been preserved in the Municipal Archives, a rather exceptional circumstance as in most cases they have entirely disappeared. Up until now, historiography has been silent on many aspects of the Rural Police Commission, such as its constitution, its relationship with the political life of the period, the kind of agricultural plantations that its mandate covered, the effectiveness of its actions, the reactions and hopes it awakened among owners and workers, etc. We try to address these matters by cross-referencing the aforementioned local documentation with the national legal corpus on rural police institutions. The analysis is completed by comparing the evidence in this case with data from institutional economics.
- Subjects
BADAJOZ (Spain); SPAIN; LAND reform; AGRICULTURE; HISTORY of agricultural policy; SPANISH Republic, 1931-1939; RURAL police; TWENTIETH century; HISTORY
- Publication
Historia Agraria, 2016, Issue 70, p101
- ISSN
1139-1472
- Publication type
Article