This article deals with the main economic keys that explain the evolution in the deployment of prisoners and prisoners of war on extending and reconstructing the railways. The first part presents a list of the works carried out during the Spanish civil war and the Francoist dictatorship....

This paper contributes to the historiographical debate about the impact of forced labour in the Spanish economy within the context of Civil War and immediate post‐war. Despite the advances made by historians, some key factors (such as the workforce supply‐demand, the costs and benefits of...