La sociabilidad obrera coruñesa a través de una obra de Emilia Pardo Bazán: "La Tribuna"

Abstract

The intention of this article is approach worker's sociability spaces in the town of A Coruña by analysing the novel La Tribuna, written by Emilia Pardo Bazán in1882. The work in question has, as its main character, a woman cigar maker employed in the A Palloza Tobacco Factory during the eighteen-seventies. Throughout the story, we are presented with the different stages in the daily life of the main character develops. This is an example and a starting point to examine workers' areas of sociability in history and the importance thereof in the creation of a specific collective identity of the emerging working class of the those times.