The eight-hour day, a triumph of the workers’ struggle
Barcelona’s labour mobilisation began in the early 20th century to tackle the living conditions endured by the working class. To mark the centenary of the La Canadenca strike...
Sílvia Marimon
Journalist, specialist in memory and history issues
She has contributed to different books on exile, repression and the Spanish Civil War, and is currently working for the Ara newspaper.
She co-authored, with Queralt Solé, La dictadura de pedra. El Valle de los Caídos, entre un passat negre i un futur incert [The Stone Dictatorship. The Valley of the Fallen, between a Dark Past and an Uncertain Future] (Ara Llibres, 2019), Triviacat. Història de Catalunya [Triviacat. History of Catalonia] (Editorial Angle, 2015) and co-edited, with Arcadi Oliveres, Aturem la crisi [Let’s Stop the Crisis] (Angle Editorial, 2010) and El meu camí cap a la utopia [My Path to Utopia] (Angle Editorial, 2008).
Last Update: February, 2020
Articles by Sílvia Marimon
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