Abstract

DELGADO-GRANADOS, Patricia  and  GONZALO RAMIREZ, Macías. Convenience or Necessity? The Formation of the Working Class in the Universidades Laborales of Franco's Spain (1955-1978). hist.crit. [online]. 2017, n.63, pp.117-136. ISSN 0121-1617.  https://doi.org/10.7440/histcrit63.2017.06.

One of the main objectives of Franco's educational policy was the training of the working class, which is why one of the principal educational institutions created during that period were the Universidades Laborales. This article is focused on analyzing the ends sought by these macroinstitutions in preparing the future workers of Spain, and it makes use of a variety of primary sources -documentary, archival, graphic and juridical- in order to study the subject. The conclusions indicate that the objectives of the Universidades Laborales were, on the one hand, specialized professional training and, on the other hand, their indoctrination in the ideological principles advocated by the regime.

Keywords : History of education; Spain; dictatorship; working class; university; professional training.

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