Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/246935 
Year of Publication: 
2011
Series/Report no.: 
EHES Working Papers in Economic History No. 4
Publisher: 
European Historical Economics Society (EHES), s.l.
Abstract: 
This article analyses the forced labour system created in Spain during the Civil War and maintained during the Francoist dictatorship, paying special attention to the economic logic that led the state and private enterprises to draw a profit from this kind of punishment. In order to deal with this question in depth my research has been focused on three main aspects: the workforce supply in a war economy and in a context of reconstruction, the margins of profit produced by this kind of labour in comparison with free labour, and the problems related to productivity levels. Through consideration of these questions I present an overview of the main research in the subject and make suggestions for new goals in Spanish economic history concerned with this kind of repressive practice, bringing it into line with international historiography on the forced labour economy.
Subjects: 
forced labour
war economy
Spanish Civil War
Franco's Dictatorship
prison economy
JEL: 
J20
N34
N44
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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