economic

• less industrialised than Britain and Germany - 46% of Spanish people still working in the agriculture sector
• due to Primo de Rivera's failed economic policies , the government was left in a huge budget deficit - couldn't fund gov investments to boost economy
• industrial production was hit by the great Depression , rise in unemployment
• peasants working land on vast estates were paid starvation wages by land owners. lots of poverty , low living standards and low pay meant not enough demand for emergence of a consumer economy