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Tensiones institucionales en el abastecimiento urbano de agua. El conflicto en torno a las formas de gestión en A Coruña, 1939 - 1975
(2006)[Resumen] Las vinculaciones entre los negocios, y el soporte institucional son antiguas. A lo largo de la historia se han sucedido diversos entornos. El objetivo del trabajo es reflexionar sobre los factores determinantes ... -
The City as a Business: Gas and Business in the Spanish Region of Galicia, 1850–1936
(Cambridge University Press, 2012)[Abstract] The history of town gas is unique in the development of public services in urban areas. Indeed, gas was the subject of the first network infrastructure set up in cities. In Spain, its history is discontinuous ... -
The Commercial Sector in an Early-Twentieth Century Spanish City. La Coruña 1914-1935
(SAGE, 2008)[Abstract]: The aim of this study is to examine the weight and evolution of commercial distribution in a medium-sized Spanish city. The paper is divided into four main parts, the first of which analyzes retail studies ... -
The Conquest of Urban Mobility: The Spanish Case, 1843–2012
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The economic behaviour of a spanish town in a general context of stagnation : the case of La Coruña, 1939-1960
(2006-09-14)In this work an analysis is made on some aspects of the economic evolution of La Coruña that took place after the civil war, namely during the 40s and 50s, which corresponds to the period just before the deep ‘metamorphosis’ ... -
The emergence of financial capital in the health insurance business in Europe: The case of Spain in the last fifty years
(Cambridge University Press, 2024)[Abstract]: Sickness insurance companies were developed in Spain by doctors and healthcare professionals, remaining outside the interests of general insurance companies. Their management was hardly professional, with ... -
The gas companies in Spain, a long-run approach (1842-2018)
(Francis & Taylor/Routledge, 2022)[Abstract]: The article aims to analyse the evolution of gas companies in Spain from their starting point in the middle of the nineteenth century (when the business was limited to public lighting), up until the complexity ... -
The Gas Industry in Latin Europe. Economic Development During the 19th and 20th Centuries
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The genesis, growth and organisational changes of private health insurance companies in Spain (1915-2015)
(Francis & Taylor/Routledge, 2019)[Abstract]: The crisis of welfare states in Europe has offered a growing market share to private health insurance companies. Health insurance is currently one of the fastest growing branches of private insurance business ... -
The historical roots of the creation of the Catalan privatepublic hospital model: c. 1870-1935
(2021)[Abstract]: This paper analyses the roots of the creation of the Catalan hospital model, based on a preponderance of privately owned hospitals and beds over those of public provision. In particular, on the basis of ... -
The Impact of World War II on Gas Production in Latin Europe
(Springer, 2023)[Abstract] During World War II, the problems that the gas sector faced were the lack and the increased cost of coal, the raw material with which most of the gas was manufactured, but it also had diffculties to obtain ... -
The introduction of sickness insurance in Spain in the first decades of the Franco dictatorship (1939-1962)
(Oxford, 2013-10)[Abstract:]Using new statistical data on financing, coverage and economic and health care provisions, this article analyses how sickness insurance was introduced, managed and extended in Spain, under the Franco dictatorship, ... -
The labour market under the iron fist of the state’: the Franco dictatorship in the mirror of Hitler, Mussolini and Stalin
(Taylor & Francis, 2013-05)[Abstract] This article focuses on the idea that intervention in the labour market through the suspension of labour rights and freedoms, fear and a fall in purchasing power all played a key role in achieving political ... -
The long shadow of charity in the Spanish hospital system, c. 1870-1942
(Francis & Taylor/Routledge, 2019)[Abstract]: One of the key historical changes related to the increase in overall welfare for the population of Europe was the provision of sickness coverage. Public and private hospital charity was focused almost exclusively ... -
The Path Is Made by Walking: Spaces of Light and Shadow in the History of Transport and Mobility in Spain
(Berghahn Books, 2014)[Abstract] Some years ago, Javier Vidal took stock of the historiography on transport in Spain, noting its main achievements and shortcomings. Here we continue by analyzing the Spanish historiography of this subject published ... -
The penetration of financial capital and the growth of private hospital groups in Europe: the case of Spain (1975-2022)
(Cambridge University Press, 2022)[Abstract] From the last decades of the twentieth century, above all, in the more service-oriented post-industrial economies, and in a context of debilitation of public health systems, health care became exponentially ... -
The Territorial Diffusion of the Gas Industry in Latin Europe Before the Competition from Electricity
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The tourism economy in Spain, 1900-1939: new sources, new methodologies and new results
(Francis & Taylor/Routledge, 2018)[Abstract]: This paper explores the economic dimension of Spain's tourism resources during the first third of the twentieth century using new quantitative and qualitative evidence. With this aim firstly critically analyses ...