Casas para obreros: un aspecto de la lucha antialcohólica en España durante la Restauración

Abstract

The Spanish Restoration saw the development of a pro-temperance literature, aimed at warning against the dangers of the excessive drinking and demanding that the authorities apply measures to decrease the consumption of alcohol. One of the basic pillars of the temperance movement was the construction of housing for workers. The possibility of workers becoming owners of a healthy, comfortable home, and internalization of the bourgeois concept of the home, were fundamental influences on strategies to keep workers away from the taverns.