Labor movement in Spain
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The labor movement in Spain began in Catalonia in the 1830s and 1840s, although it was during the Democratic Sexenio when it was really born with the founding of the Spanish Regional Federation of the
Congreso Obrero de Barcelona de 1870, drawing by Padró, engraving by Capuz, in La Ilustración Española y Americana.
Anselmo Lorenzo, grandfather of Spanish anarchism.
Greengrocers' mutiny in Madrid (1892)
Workers' demonstration. Let's go on strike! By Mariano Foix (1901)
The Confederación Nacional del Trabajo is a Spanish anarcho-syndicalist trade union confederation.
Labor movement in Spain
…the two major Spanish trade union organizations were founded, the socialist Unión General de Trabajadores (UGT, 1888) and the anarcho-syndicalist Confederación Nacional del Trabajo (CNT, 1910), with the latter predominating until the Second Spanish Republic. CNT and UGT were the protagonists of the social revolution that took place…
The 1910 Congress
CNT-FAI worker cooperative in Barcelona producing wood and steel products
CNT Madrid offices
CNT Barcelona offices