Los orígenes del Estado Social en España

Resumen

This article is dedicated to the analysis of the first institutions and mesures of social and working protection in Spain. It pretends to examine the historiography concerning this issue, bringing up interpretations coming from comparative history and sociology that have recently allowed the questioning of some assertions about the origins of the Spanish Social State. In the first place, it studies the Liberal Assitance, which includes the first manifestations of the turn towards the Protective State. Next, it deals with the period of the definitive institutionalisation of the social reform, in the first two decades of the XX century. In the third place, there is an exam of the acceleration of the political reforms, within the context of the Restoration social and political crisis (1917-1923). Finally, the article analyses some of the recurrent topics on the subject used by the Spanish bibliography, which have been put under revision by the last contributions.