The implementation of the eight-hour work day in MZA. An approach.
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https://doi.org/10.24197/tvzvkr22Keywords:
railway; Spain; working day; company; trade unions.Abstract
The working day has always been a subject of friction between the agents involved in the labour field. The regulation of the working day has a milestone: the Washington Conference in 1919, and the establishment of the eight-hour work day or 48-hour work week.
For the Spanish railway, this introduction meant conflict between the Government, the Companies and the Unions and an economic cost for the companies. The analysis of a large number of sources allows us to know in a very complete way what this labour implementation meant for MZA, one of the most important companies in the Spanish railway and therefore, in the Spanish economy before the Civil War.
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