Angel Smith in Senior Lecturer in Spanish History at the University of Leeds. He has worked extensively in the areas of Spanish labor and Spanish nationalisms. His books include An Historical Dictionary of Modern Spain (Scarecrow Press, 1996), Clare Mar-Molinero and Angel Smith (eds), Nationalism and National Identity in the Iberian Peninsula. Competing and Conflicting Identities (Berg, 1996), Angel Smith and Emma Dávila-Cox (eds), The Crisis of 1898. Colonial Redistribution and Nationalist Mobilization (Macmillan, 1999), Stefan Berger and Angel Smith (eds), Nationalism, Labour and Ethnicity, 1870-1939 (Manchester University Press, 1999), Angel Smith (ed), Red Barcelona. Social Mobilization and Labour Conflict in the Twentieth Century (Routledge, 2002).

“The major and significant achievement of Ángel Smith’s exhaustively researched monograph is to provide a balanced and intelligent explanation for the tremendous influence of anarchism amongst the Catalan working class and the Barceloneses in particular that was so evident in the first heady months of the Spanish revolution from July 1936… Ángel Smith has produced an exemplary study that will surely establish itself as the core text on the growth and development of Catalan anarchism, but which also contributes much to a more profound understanding of the broader course of twentieth century Spanish history.”  ·  Social History“This detailed work provides a valuable account of the factors which destabilized Spain in the period up to 1923. In essence this is an excellent reference work to the complicated labour and political situations which existed in early twentieth-century Spain, and it should find a place on the shelves of libraries and historians of contemporary Spain.”  ·  Bulletin of Spanish Studies“In sum this is an invaluable work, which no historian of modern Spain, anarchism or European labour can afford to do without.”  ·  History“[this] outstanding study enriches…our understanding of Catalan anarchism and syndicalism..”  ·  International Socialism

• List of Figures and TablesAcknowledgementsList of AcronymsA Note on Language UsageIntroductionPART I: THE ROOTS OF INDUSTRIAL MILITANCYChapter 1. Industrial Structure, Technological Change and the Labour ProcessChapter 2. Gender, Skill and Class: Hierarchy and Solidarity within the Catalan Working-Class CommunityChapter 3. The State, Employers and Organised Labour: Political Marginalisation, Social Control and ResistancePART II: BUILDING THE ANARCHIST-SYNDICALIST MOVEMENT, 1898 to 1914Chapter 4. Anarchism, Socialism and the General Strike, 1898 to 1909Chapter 5. Workers against the State: Anarchism, Republicanism, Popular and Working-Class Protest, 1898 to 1909Chapter 6. The Foundation of the CNT, 1910 to 1914PART III: THE GUN AND THE SWORD: THE CATALAN CNT FROM REVOLUTION TO REPRESSION, 1915 to 1923Chapter 7. The War-Time Economy and the Rise of the Sindicats Unics, 1915 to 1918Chapter 8. Between Reform and Revolution: The Catalan CNT and the Left-Wing Challenge to the Restoration Regime, 1915 to 1918Chapter 9. 1919: The Apogee of the Catalan CNT and the Employer-Military CounteroffensiveChapter 10. The Road to Dictatorship: The Destruction of the Catalan CNT and the Fall of the Restoration Regime, 1920 to 1923Bibliography