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Too many workers or not enough land? Why land reform fails in Spain during the 1930s

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  • James Simpson
  • Juan Carmona

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On the eve of the Second Republic there was a broad consensus among most contemporaries that some form of land reform was necessary for Spain’s southern provinces. Enormous estates were believed to be under-cultivated by their absentee owners, denying landless workers employment, and leading to widespread rural poverty. The slow implementation of land reform deeply divided Spanish society, and is often cited as a cause of the outbreak of the Civil War. This paper, using a large sample of farm level information collected by the Institute of Agrarian Reform for the estates expropriated in the region of Extremadura, questions the possibilities of land reform as a means to raise farm output to solve rural poverty.

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  • James Simpson & Juan Carmona, 2015. "Too many workers or not enough land? Why land reform fails in Spain during the 1930s," Documentos de Trabajo de la Sociedad de Estudios de Historia Agraria 1509, Sociedad de Estudios de Historia Agraria.
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    Cited by:

    1. Javier Puche & Carmen González Martínez, 2018. "Strikes and Rural Unrest during the Second Spanish Republic (1931–1936): A Geographic Approach," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 11(1), pages 1-26, December.
    2. Roses, Joan R., 2015. "Spanish land reform in the 1930s: economic necessity or political opportunism?," LSE Research Online Documents on Economics 64498, London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Library.
    3. Samuel Garrido, 2017. "The fruit of inequality: wine, efficiency, agrarian contracts and property rights in Catalonia (1898-1935)," Documentos de Trabajo (DT-AEHE) 1701, Asociación Española de Historia Económica.

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    Keywords

    land reform; rural conflict; Extremadura; Spain; Second Republic;
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    JEL classification:

    • N54 - Economic History - - Agriculture, Natural Resources, Environment and Extractive Industries - - - Europe: 1913-
    • O13 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Agriculture; Natural Resources; Environment; Other Primary Products
    • Q15 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Agriculture - - - Land Ownership and Tenure; Land Reform; Land Use; Irrigation; Agriculture and Environment
    • R52 - Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics - - Regional Government Analysis - - - Land Use and Other Regulations

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