El trabajo en la ciudad: diccionario de profesiones de las ciudades de Galicia, 1845-1924

Carmen Fernández Casanova Affiliation: Universidad de La Coruña (España) Biography: Carmen Fernández Casanova es catedrática de Historia Contemporánea en la Universidad de La Coruña y ha centrado su actividad investigadora en el conocimiento de la historia social y urbana de Galicia a través del estudio de sus instituciones, de la acción colectiva y de las fuentes generalistas, básicas para la reconstrucción del tejido social. Entre sus publicaciones destacan: La Sociedad Económica de Amigos del País de Santiago, vida y actividades en el siglo XIX, Sada-A Coruña, 1982, y La Comisión de Reformas sociales y la cuestión social en Ferrol (1884-1903), Santiago, 1984 (en colaboración con J.M.ª Palomares Ibáñez). Close window

Carmen Fernández Casanova About the authors  Publication year: 2011 Language: Spanish Subjects: Social Sciences

Abstract:

After studying a dozen censuses from Ferrol, Coruña, and Santiago de Compostela covering the period from the second half of the nineteenth to the first quarter of the twentieth, this book enumerates the main professional activities in the form of a dictionary. For each entry the author offers the reader a description of the profession concerned, the census from which the name was taken, and the number of occurrences. The data provided by these documentary sources on the three most populous cities in the province of La Coruña provide valuable information with which to understand Galician society of the time, and to infer information about the pace of social modernisation in an era of significant economic change and policies on the history of the incorporation of women into the workforce, and on the evolving world of work and family.

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