ABSTRACT
This book investigates urban conflict, popular protest and social control in Barcelona during the period 1898-1937. Focusing upon the sources of anarchist power in the city and the role of the organised anarchist movement during the Second Republic the volume concludes with an analysis of the decline of the power of the anarchist movement during the civil war in its identification of the local conditions that made Barcelona into the capital of European anarchism.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter 1|22 pages
The making of a divided city
chapter 2|31 pages
Mapping the working-class city
chapter 3|31 pages
The birth of the republican city
chapter 4|17 pages
The proletarian city and the Second Republic
chapter 5|28 pages
The struggle to survive
Unemployed self-help and direct action during the Republic