Bizkaia Miners’ Struggle & 1890 Strike
Bizkaia Miners’ Struggle and the 1890 Strike
Source Text Analysis (1896)
Type: Primary source. Regarding the form: article/propaganda text + narrative. Content: Socio-political text.
Author: Socialists, published in their bulletin “La Lucha de Clases” (The Class Struggle) by socialist committees of Bilbao, Gallarta, and La Arboleda (inspired by Facundo Perezagua).
Addressed to: Workers of Bizkaia (miners), but also the Government. Public text.
Objective: To denounce the working conditions of miners and
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