In his dictatorship of Spain General Franco had absolute authority, he possessed power to select his own minister but to dismiss them whenever he thought necessary. It is believed that “Franco saw himself as the one designated to save Spain from the chaos and instability visited upon the country by the evils of parliamentary democracy and political parties”(http://reference.allrefer.com/country-guide-study/spain). Before any ruling could be passed in the country at this time Franco had the final choice of whether it went ahead. By examining this we deduce that the Spanish people had absolutely no choice whatsoever in the way that their country was run, they had

In the early years on his dictatorship Franco imposed various new laws in the country of Spain. The first of these laws, know as the “Labor Charter” was introduced in 1938. This law consisted of the idea that all Spanish inhabitants had the obligation to carryout some from of work. This law did, however call for a maximum number of working hours as well as a satisfactory level of payment. It also established the government controlled trade unions which were “the only form of industrial organisation allowed by law”(Ross, 2000: 97). These unions where able to give the people of Spain some level of job security as a system of employment tribunals was also used for such thing as dissolving any disputes within the workplace. We can see from this law that Franco was trying to create equality within the place of work so that no one was treated any differently to anyone else. By creating this law it also conveys the fact that Franco did want Spain to be a prosperous country and did want the countries people to have some involvement with that.

Throughout the early part of this decade fatalities from starvation and malnutrition where very common, famine was only just narrowly avoided by shipments of wheat sent from Argentina, which was under the rule of another dictator, Juan Peron. The conditions in the inner cities in Spain resembled those of a modern day third world country “Spain experienced a phenomenon unparalleled in modern Europe: a return to the land” (Ross 2000:98). This continues the idea of Spain being completely different to the rest of the world and displays the thought that instead of moving forward Spain seems to be moving back to the past. At this point in time most of the countries in Europe had found that to earn a substantial amount of income to support their families most people had to move to industrial areas to do this. The people of Spain, however where doing the complete opposite of this, they were trying to earn a living in the countryside by producing things from the land. Which from the point of view of this time seemed to be very outdated.

In the 1940’s the regime was seen from the out

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