Estrategias adaptativas del sindicalismo español contemporáneo

Abstract

In this article, the author discuss the thesis of the crisis or obsolescence of unionism in advanced industrial societies by analyzing the Spanish case at the turn of the 20th century. The article first addresses recent developments within the Spanish labor market to describe how workers define their problems and pose their demands, and how labor unions articúlate their goals and tactics to comply with, and to defend workers' interests. Secondly, it discusses the workers' interests, that is, the problems envisioned by the workers as well as their particular demands to the unions. And third, it portrays the unions' main goals and their specific strategies to achieve these goals. Finally, with all these elements in mind, the author will address the question of whether or not, in the context of the late 20th century, Spanish labor unions adapt to the workers' interests.