Old and new form of rural organization in Spanish agriculture

Abstract

With object of determining the attitude about the political-bureaucractic and the formal-instrumental rationality of that which here they are called as «old» forms of rural organization, the first part of the work is centered in the carlism and the anarchism, social movements that can be considerate like the most characteristic manifestations of the traditional rural forms of organization in Spain. While the rural society has gone modernizing, the «old» forms of rural organization have gone leaving pass to the gradual restoration and strenghening of another «new» in accordance with the bureaucractic-political paradigm, in what, in general, the organizational systems of the modern societies are sustained. It tries to be shown through the attention that the article dedicates to the three syndical organizations that affiliate, .fündamentally, to the spanish rural workers. These organizations are: the Federation of Rural Workers (FTT) of the General Union of Workers (UGT), the Rural Workers Commissions (CC.OO.) and the Syndicate of Rural Workers (SOC). Then, the work overviews and evaluates the contributions of three important theoretical prospects (Hobsbawm, Wolf and Moore), about the attitudes and organizational potentialities of the traditional peaseants. Finally, it is concluded with an intent of explanation, by the author, of such attitudes and potentialities, through the determination of some of the ecosystemic motivations of themselves.