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This article aims to portray industrial workers’ vocational training during Primo de Rivera’s dictatorship in Spain (1923–1930), based on the Industrial Training Act of 1924 and the Vocational Training Act of 1928. The programme was devised to meet the modernising expectations of a conventional society. The grounds for government interventionism were laid down in a new curriculum based on the Work School, influenced by the aims of the New School, whose main objective was to create citizens and technicians. Accordingly, this article analyses, on the one hand, the ideological context that fostered the rebirth of industry-oriented training, and the influence of social Taylorism and the New School movement on the design of a newly humanised-technological programme; and, on the other hand, the corporate political manipulation by Primo de Rivera’s dictatorship of the new model of training based on work schools, influenced by the idea of reactionary modernisation. |
