'The struggle for the streets': Unemployed hawkers, protest culture and repression in the Barcelona area, c1918-1936

An article by Chris Ealham on the CNT's mobilisation of street traders, whom the Spanish Republic considered 'undesirables' and repressed, and the militancy of the vendors themselves.

From Labour History Review, Volume 73, Number 1, April 2008 , pp. T-38(20)
Publisher: Maney Publishing

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