Jessica Nogueira, a researcher at HISTAGRA-CISPAC, wins the Edelmiro Otero Calvo Trade Union Foundation Award

Jessica Nogueira, a researcher at HISTAGRA-CISPAC, has been awarded the research prize organised by the Edelmiro Otero Calvo Trade Union Foundation in collaboration with Alvarellos Editora. The work focuses on social mobilisation against the socialist government’s first industrial restructuring between 1983 and 1985, with particular emphasis on Vigo and Ferrol. 

The Edelmiro Otero Calvo Trade Union Foundation Prize is an essay award, worth €10,000, organised by the Edelmiro Otero Calvo Trade Union Foundation in collaboration with Alvarellos Editora. It recognises original works in Galician on trade unionism, labour, economic or social research of interest to Galicia. The main themes are: the development, in-depth analysis and dissemination of trade unionism or labour/social issues.

 

Jessica Nogueira Castro (Maside, 1995) holds a Bachelor’s degree in History (USC, 2017) and an Inter-university Master’s degree in Contemporary History (USC, 2018). She is currently pursuing a PhD in Contemporary History at the Department of History at the USC. During the 2017/18 academic year, she received a research grant from the MECD, which she used to work on the Nomes e Voces collection. She was awarded the USC’s Extraordinary Prize for the Bachelor’s Degree in History. Her research focuses on social mobilisation, collective action and the dynamics of conflict and repression from the end of the Franco regime to the 1990s. 

The Edelmiro Otero Calvo Trade Union Foundation is an organisation classified as being of labour and Galician interest, established in Porriño on 15 December 1995. Based in Vigo (Gregorio Espino, 47), it was formally recognised by the Galician Regional Government in 1996 for inclusion in the Register of Foundations of Galician Interest.