Epilogue Jorge Montero, Federico Corriente
This book is a comparative study of the social and political history during the Spanish revolution in Barcelona and the Popular Front in Paris during the period 1936-1939, and focuses on the attitude of the workers of both cities to work when organizations that sought to represent governmental responsibilities exercised greater or lesser extent.

The result of research conducted by Michael Seidman in Paris, Barcelona and Salamanca in the early 1980s and first released in 1991 in the United States, workers against labor abounds in documents and first-hand information about everyday working class struggles and it shows that the productivist and culturalist approaches are unable to adequately cover key aspects of the behavior of the working class. This volume offers a review of the working activity in both revolutionary and reformist context, highlights the persistence of direct and indirect labor resistance.

Michael Seidman pays attention to details that are beyond the ubiquitous ideological or political quarrels; the result is a study that documented how refreshing that not only helps us understand the history of both countries and deepen the understanding of two key moments in the history of twentieth-century Europe, but also helps to bring out a dimension of world of work until not long ago considered nothing short of taboo: it engenders resistance and the role played by the organizations 'workers' respect.

This is not a book that has gone unnoticed precisely, has been translated into seven languages ​​and since its inception has unleashed passions across the political spectrum, as says the author in the article "The strange story of the workers against labor '' His admirers were academics, libertarians, communists and capitalists, and their critics have been equally heterogeneous. "

This volume, published now for the first time in Castilian has been translated by Federico Corriente, and includes an afterword written with Jorge Montero, "On the vicissitudes of the workers against work" intended to shed some light on the medium that inspired the couple to stoke a much needed debate today.