Preface; Introduction: personal networks, political strategies and the
making of democracy; Part I. Personal Networks, Political Traditions and
State Policies: 1. Unquiet hearts: the primitive world of the first
political men; 2. The burden of hopes and hatreds: ideological traditions
in clandestine circumstance; 3. Oligarchic unity and working-class
divisions: a political economy of El Marco de Jerez; 4. Political clans and
capitalist planning: a political economy of Francoism; Part II. Syndical
Practices, Social Struggles and Political Protests: 5. The vertical
syndicate: the mainstay of Franco's corporatist strategy; 6. The workers'
commissions: the national picture compared with the movement in El Marco de
Jerez; 7. Wage contracts, labour conflicts and political protests: the
syndical practices of the labour movement; Part III. Political Practices,
Repression and Strategic Responses: 8. The revolutionary paradox: the
changing political line of the Spanish Communist Party; 9. A place in the
struggle: personal networks and political practices in El Marco de Jerez;
10. The other side of darkness: the repressive practices of the Franco
regime; 11. Contingent connections: the relationship between the workers'
commissions and the Spanish Communist Party; 12. Fighting with two faces:
the strategic combination of legal and clandestine spaces; Part IV.
Political Strategies and the Democratic Project: 13. Democratic
transformation and the transition to democracy: the political project of
the labour movement, 1955-85; 14. Corporatist strategies and the transition
to democracy: the institutional terrain of the struggle; 15. Personal
networks and political strategies: Spanish civil society in the struggle
for democracy; Bibliography; Index.
