Abstract
The pandemic of the 1940s in Spain was hunger but fasting was not the only manifestation of the misery of those years. For the vast majority of the Spanish population an extraordinary effort was needed to ensure just bare survival, and, even so, those on lower incomes were scarcely able to. Deterioration in living conditions are equally explainable by Francoist labour policies which led to reductions in wages and salaries, and by the growth of the black market, in which, given the inconsistent availability of basic necessities at normal prices, it was necessary to buy a significant proportion of essential commodities. Did the misery that characterized the postwar period influence popular attitudes towards Francoism? In the context of a dictatorship that exercised a rigid social control, employing repression as a primary instrument, a passivity which did not imply acceptance spread among the workers and consequently the regime was able to do no more than neutralize dissent.
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