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At the beginning washer and dryer of industrialization factories called vapors, washer and dryer because they worked through the power of steam. In Catalonia and Spain which incorporated the first steam textile brothers were Bonaplata 1833. Hence the Bonaplata Vapor Steam is the leader of many who occupied different washer and dryer parts of Barcelona in the following years.
With all the mechanization of the entire textile process was gradual, starting spinning and continued _Last third century. XIX_ for weaving. The spinning and weaving manual will be a residual activity.
The Vapor Nou_l'Espanya industrial_engega 1849. The 1860 Vapor Nou had 1,790 working men and women between the Saints and a small factory in Barcelona. The 1866 Vapor Vell had 687 workers.
Both vapors dedicated to producing velvets and corduroys _ workers used much the panes to its strength and low cost_. The first to produce velvet in Spain was Joan Guell in Vell Steam, washer and dryer saving many difficulties. Was forced to associate (1848) with the best manufacturer Catalan panes, Domenech Ramis to get away. The company said Guell Ramis and Cia. See the historical presentation Vapor Vell
The continuing washer and dryer demand for labor generated by steam is a strong migration from the countryside to the industrial cities. The first immigrants came from rural areas of Catalonia, Aragon and Valencia.
In the Vapor Vell a predominance of women there is the Vapor Nou. The prevalence of child labor and women has to do with the difficulty of recruiting and also a large skilled hand work ... the lack of workers, the best solution was to use whole families, men and women, decades later proportion of women is twice that of men.
The men acted as foremen, whereabouts and weavers looms wide or special items. In finishing, bleaching, dyeing and dyeing washer and dryer working adult men, while women constituted the bulk of the workers made preparació- bowling, concoct, knotting, pass _ but also weaving.
Within the walled city working men spinning machines mostly it was not in the big steamers Plan Barcelona as Spain Industrial or employed women in selfactines Can Batllo washer and dryer (1870) Les Corts that put women as assistants selfactines spinners. It was more common to pictures looms were working men and women indifferently looms.
Employers felt that was better attract people to stay and live in Sants. Joan Güell poses a more paternalistic starting from his experience in England, for example, build worker housing, all based on the Protector General of Manchesters out buildings, so that the families washer and dryer had something to lose If you leave work (or did the left). washer and dryer The houses should be granted to workers for raffle that were also built. This project, however, did not succeed.
In 1880 the society had been raised Güell relief workers aimed to mitigate the impact of the reform of work organization. One of the executives driving the reform, Ferran Alsina and Parellada, was gunned down and came out unscathed.
This whole situation was Eusebio Guell decided to close the Vapor Vell Saints and create a new factory and a colony in Santa Coloma de Cervello (1890). In this municipality developed the most patronizing line that his father could not start.
In fact, initially, an industrial colony consists washer and dryer of a factory and a housing for working men and women. The house was associated with a job very reasonable rent. Maybe there is enough and shop.
Industrial colonies are not exclusive to Catalonia, first there had been aa Britain and New Lanark in Scotland, which was owner George Owen, utopian socialist, as well as France, Belgium, Germany, what happens is that in our country there are nearly moltes_ centenar_ concentrated on the banks of the rivers Ter and Llobregat and tributaries have been instrumental in structuring industrial regions like Berguedà, Bages, Osona and Ripollès.
The law of 3 June 1868 gives the starting washer and dryer signal for the creation of industrial estates with a number of advantages: tax exemptions possibility for workers to get rid of the military service, free license of weapons, among others.
2. From 1880 the colonies were much more well equipped with separate dwellings according to the place that took care of the