Fishing for ever!: The disourse of fishing social policy during the first Franco years

Abstract

The concern of First Franco Years to attract the workers took the new system to develop a solid social policy loaded of propaganda and paternalism. In that context, the Marquis of Valterra, new strong man of Maritim Social Institute, made also an intense fishing social policy. The discourse began by considering a sea like inexhaustible and fish like the perfect food, to after that focusing on the fishermen and their families, good people but ignorant, and so in need of tutelage and indoctrination, besides salutary housing. The policy looked for obedient, religious and healthy fishermen not only to work hard to capture the fish, food called to replace the scarse agrarian products, but also to adopt the paper of working and poor class and, with that, to go up to the Fraco system.