Francoism and Social Policy: a critical approach to Housing and Health Assistance policies

Abstract

The aim of this paper is to analyze two of the most important «social policies» developed by Francoism:

Housing Policy and Social Assistance, taking into account its health as well as social security dimensions, strongly joined into the francoist assistential system. Francoist «social policies» had been the object of historiographical attention over the last decades, but there is still a lot of work to do in the sphere of the «social policy» of the Regime.

In the case of Housing Policy, We will focus on everyday life experiences in Social Housing neighbourhoods. With regard to social assistance, our interests will be the evolution of the Spanish endowment of hospitals and minor sanitary infrastructure during this period just as the conditions of the population to get medical attention in the context of the implementation of Compulsory Sickness Insurance.

All of that, paying special attention to the sociological profiles of the beneficiaries and within the metodological framework designed for the analyses of people’s behaviours under the Fascist rule