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The overall effect of mass deportation, plague and emigration reduced peninsular Spain's population from over 8 million in the last years of the 16th century to under 7 million by the mid-17th century, with Castile the most severely affected region (85% of the Kingdom's population were in Castile), as an example, in 1500, the population of ...
Falangist propaganda from the Spanish Civil War, reading "By force of arms/Fatherland, Bread and Justice".. The economy of Spain between 1939 and 1959, usually called the Autarchy (Spanish: Autarquía), the First Francoism (Spanish: Primer Franquismo) or simply the post-war (Spanish: Posguerra) was a period of the economic history of Spain marked by international isolation and the attempted ...
The 142 m Torre de Madrid, built in 1957, heralded the "Spanish Miracle".. The Spanish miracle (Spanish: el milagro español) refers to a period of exceptionally rapid development and growth across all major areas of economic activity in Spain during the latter part of the Francoist regime, 1959 to 1974, [1] in which GDP averaged a 6.5 percent growth rate per year, [2] and was itself part of a ...
The History of early childhood care and education (ECCE) refers to the development of care and education of children between birth and eight years old throughout history. ECCE has a global scope, and caring for and educating young children has always been an integral part of human societies.
The economy of Spain is a highly developed social market economy. [30] It is the world's 15th largest by nominal GDP and the sixth-largest in Europe . Spain is a member of the European Union and the eurozone , as well as the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development and the World Trade Organization .
Despite industrialization in Spain and because of the industrialization of agricultural in the 1900s, restrictive gender norms meant only 9% of women were employed by 1930. This represented a drop of 12% of all women and 0.5 million total women in the workforce from 1877 to 1930. [ 1 ]
In Spain the first step in the direction of limitation of women's hours of labour was taken by a law of 1900, which took effect in 1902, in regulations for reduction of hours of labour for adults to II, normally, in the 24. Hours of children under 14 must not exceed 6 in any industrial work nor 8 in any commercial undertaking.
The history of education in Spain is marked by political struggles and the progress of modern societies. It began in the late Middle Ages , very close to the clergy and the nobility, and during the Renaissance it passed into the domain of a thriving bourgeois class that led an incipient enlightenment in the so-called Age of Enlightenment .