1.2.2 Tackling Agricultural Problems

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    • Initial 1931 Agrarian Reforms:
      1. A maximum 8 hour work day
      2. A legal right to overtime pay
      3. Law of Municipal Boundaries
    • As many landowners ignored the initial reforms, agrarian labourers joined trade unions such as the FNTT and UGT
    • The 1932 Agrarian Reform Law established the Institute of Agrarian Reform, which had the power to confiscate and redistribute land over 23 hectares to peasants
    • Failures of the Institute of Agrarian Reform:
      1. It was slow and indecisive
      2. It lacked funding (received only 1% of the annual budget)
      3. The government had no way of enforcing the new rights
    • Consequences of the Agrarian Reforms:
      1. They were criticised by the FNTT agricultural union
      2. Socialists and the UGT became more radical, demanding new reforms
      3. It led to the creation of CEDA
    • Gil Robles toured the country arguing that the agrarian reforms would drive down the price of wheat and plunge small farms deeper into poverty