The socio-economic development during the First Portuguese Republic

Abstract

After a brief examination of the Portuguese situation before the revolution of the 5^th October 1910, the author tries to characterize the main aspects of the evolution that took place during the First Republic (1910-26) in Portugal. The following aspects are considered here: demography, emigration, culture and schooling, productive sectors, trade, infrastructures, prices and wages, public administration, working-class movement and colonies. In the last part one establishes a relation between the evolution already referred to and the revolution of the 28^th May 1926, that put an end to the First Republic.