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The work consists of an approximation to the strike of the construction sector that took place in the city of Granada between July 21 and 29, 1970. This event had a great resonance in the whole of Spain due to of the brutality with which a concentration of pallets was repressed, on the first day of strike, which led to a pitched battle in the streets of Granada in which three workers died for the traits of Franco’s police. The repression of the construction strike in Granada in July 1970 is considered one of the most important events related to the world of work that took place that year in the whole of Spain. However, at the time of considering us to do a search on this event that could extend the data already known and published, we note the lack of an approximation to the strike that arose from the living conditions of the workers and that connected this event with the rest of the history of the Grenadian labor movement in the twentieth century. For us this was very important because what is known popularly in Granada as “the strike of the 70” was the first major mobilization caused by labor in this city since the beginning of the civil war, 34 years earlier. This is the reason for the interest, as detailed in the first chapter, of beginning to tell the story of the strike long before 1970. The purpose of this initial approach was to try to find background in the history of the a city in the outbreak of violence that brought about three deaths and behaviors that occurred before, during and after the strike, as well as to establish the possible lines of continuity and / or rupture between the Granada movement of the 1930s and the which starred in the 1970 strike.
