« Nous ne demandons pas la charité. Nous voulons du travail ! ». La politique franquiste d'assistance aux invalides

This article explains the evolution of the Franquist policy of assistance to the civilian invalids (1939-1975). After 1939, only the disabled ex-serviceman pro-Franco and the blinds obtain a substantial help of the State. Classified within the “civil invalids”, the other categories of invalids (congenital invalids, disabled workers, disabled ex-serviceman republicans) are in a very great unstable situation. During the 1950s, some civilian invalids leaders mobilize themselves to set up a national association of invalids. They wish to obtain the redefinition of the Franquist policy of assistance to the civilian invalids, impregnated by the idea of charity, towards a policy based on the right to employment. The political and associative configuration of the Franquist regime reflect considerably on the final characteristics of their national association, the Asociación Nacional de Invalidos Civiles (ANIC) created in 1958. The invalid leaders have friendly or conflicting relations with multiple actors within the Franquist regime (ONCE, Benemérito Cuerpo de Mutilados de Guerra por la Patria, OSE), and the nature of these relations strongly reflects on the attributions of the ANIC. This article analyzes the strategies of the invalid leaders and their fight for the right to employment.