Formació professional, instrucció i adoctrinament a l'empresa Segarra (la Vall d'Uixó, Castelló) durant el franquisme = Professional training, instruction and indoctrination at the Segarra company (La Vall d'Uixó -Castelló-) within the Franco period

In the context of the first decades of the Franco period, this article analyzes some of
the paternalistic educative politics carried out in the working field of a shoes company
based in La Vall dUixó, Castellon. In an atmosphere that mixed professional training
with indoctrination, control and instruction, the employees of the company could
benefit from different educative initiatives offered by the manufacture. La Escuela de
Aprencices Segarra (Segarra Apprentice School) is one of them.

These training activities were located within the company paternalistic politics, in
which masters, employees, instructors and trainees composed a «big family. Within
this family and industrial amalgamation, the social and pedagogic program played an
essential role due to beneficent and welfare reasons inspired in the Christian doctrine on one hand, and to lucrative interests, more mundane and typical of an enterprise,
on the other hand.

In fact, it can be stated that everybody profited from it. On one side, the
employees and their families could access to a social and educative system, which
was only possible then for a few people and, on the other side, the masters achieved
trained disciplined and moralized manpower. This was the real motivation that drove
the shoes company to carry out an indoctrinating and controlling program.

The ideological features in which the educative program, that oriented every
training action, was based, totally matched with the pedagogical pillars of the first
Franco period. In this context, concepts like education, discipline, work, patriotism
and religiosity were always on hand, being it very difficult to distinguish one from
each other.

In conclusion, it can be said that these ideological and indoctrinating basis
allowed the inhabitants of La Vall dUixó to benefit from various educative initiatives
(apprentice school, library, School Enclosure, mutual benefit school, summer camps,
cultural extension courses, etc.), as well as from social and assistance programs
(accommodation, stewardship, clinic, canteen, etc.).