SARA LAMARCA KAYE 4ºA 16 02 2021

Industrialisation
In 19th century Spain
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1.Introduction
2.Spanish industrialisation
3.Cotton textile industry
4.Basque steel industry
5.Andalusian industry
6.Conclusion
7.We must talk about…

NOTE: Source is at the end of each page.

 1. Introduction
The Industrial Revolution began in Spain in the 1830s, but did
not take hold until the mid-19th century. The most powerful
industrial sector in Spain was the Catalan textile industry. As a
result, Catalonia became the most industrialised region in Spain
and Barcelona its most modern city.
2. Spanish industrialisation
Like in Europe, In Spain there is a demographic
Revolution and in transport , but not an agrarian
and industrial revolution that followed the
European model.
Industrialisation is a late phenomenon, limited
and located in the Basque Country and Catalonia,
with small companies and lack of competitiveness
in the foreign market and the protectionist policy
that established tariffs.

Source: https://www.elagoradiario.com

 3. Cotton textile industry

The most powerful industrial sector in Spain was the Catalan

textile industry. This was based on the existence in Catalonia
of a very active bourgeoisie since before the 19th century. It
also bene ted from good communications with the rest of
Europe and from protectionist policies (that is, policies that
protected the Catalan textile sector from foreign competition
by imposing taxes on imports).
As early as the 1930s, the Catalan textile industry
incorporated the steam engine, but the great take-off took
place in the 1940s.

Source: https://www.europages.co.uk
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 3. Cotton textile industry

The Spanish cotton industry had an evolution
highly in uenced by the little opening of the
Spanish market until the early 1960s. On that
date the industry began a process of
renovating its structures to improve its
productivity, which was then very low.

In Andalusia there was an important cotton

textile industry, which ourished during the
central years of the 19th century in Malaga and
Seville. But it could not achieve a development
comparable to that of Catalan industry.

Source: http://www.aitpa.es/_id=335
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 4, Basque steel industry

The Spanish cotton industry had an evolution

highly in uenced by the little opening of the
Spanish market until the early 1960s. On that
date the industry began a process of renovating
its structures to improve its productivity, which
was then very low.

In Andalusia there was an important cotton

textile industry, which ourished during the
central years of the 19th century in Malaga and
Seville. But it could not achieve a development
comparable to that of Catalan industry.

Source: http://www.kondaira.net/eng/Historia0001.html
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 5. Andalusian industry
From the end of the 19th century, after the Spanish
Civil War, the Andalusian industry lost weight in the
national group. Between 1930 and 1960, its
participation in the Spanish industrial product
decreased by seven percentage points.
In the Andalusian economy as a whole, the industry
maintains a very stable contribution until the end of
the 20th century. The strong outsourcing process that
occurred in the last decades in the Andalusian
economy has signi cantly reduced the weight of the
industry, which, by 2006, contributed 12.2% to the
regional Gross Added Value.

Source: https://www.juntadeandalucia.es and https://ws089.juntadeandalucia.es

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 6. Conclusion The most powerful industrial sector in Spain was the Catalan textile industry. As
early as the 1930s, the Catalan textile industry incorporated the steam engine, but
the great take-off took place in the 1940s. The Spanish cotton industry had an
evolution highly in uenced by the little opening of the Spanish market until the
early 1960s. In Andalusia there was an important cotton textile industry, which
ourished during the central years of the 19th century in Malaga and Seville. lt will
be from the end of the 19th century and from then on, after the Spanish Civil War,
when Andalusian industry lost weight in the national group. In the Andalusian
economy as a whole, the industry maintains a very stable contribution until the
end of the 20th century. The strong outsourcing process that occurred in the last
decades in the Andalusian economy has signi cantly reduced the weight of the
industry, which, by 2006, contributed 12.2% to the regional Gross Added Value.
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7. We must talk about…

 Women in the
industrial revolution.
• Among the social changes, the most important is the
birth of a new working class in the factories, living in
the suburbs around their jobs and whose living
conditions were deplorable.
• But if the mens working conditions were bad,
women’s and children’s were even worse. Women’s
salary was half the mens and they worked along side
children as young as 5 years old. The work
conditions were so terrible that at the age of 30
women looked ancient. A part from working very
long hours they had to then get home and attend
their family and houses needs.
• A part from all f that they had to experience all types
of abuse, including sexual abuse from both their
male coworkers and patrons, which used their
position to threaten them with sexual favours.
• There is so much more to unravel on this topic, but I
just wanted to name the basics.

 The End
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