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Essays in Argentine
Labour History
1870-1930
Edited by
Jeremy Adelman
Lecturer in History
University of Essex
M
Palgrave Macmillan
©Jeremy Adelman 1992
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Contents
List of Tables and Figures IX
List of Plates X
Notes on Contributors xi
Preface Xlll
Abbreviations XIV
Glossary XV
The Political Economy of Labour in Argentina,
1870-1930 35
Jeremy Adelman
2 Workers' Housing and Living Conditions in Buenos
Aires, 1880-1930 35
Leandro H. Gutierrez and Juan Suriano
3 Between Rise and Fall: Self-employed Workers in Buenos
Aires, 1850-80 52
Luis Alberto Romero and Hilda Sabato
4 Typographical Workers and their Mutualist Experience:
The Case of the Sociedad Tipografica Bonaerense,
1857-80 72
Silvia Badoza
5 The Harvest Hand: Wage-labouring on the Pampas,
1880-1914 91
Jeremy Adelman
6 Work and Conflict in the Meat-packing Industry,
1900-30 112
Mirta Zaida Lobato
7 The Labour Movement and the Historical Conjuncture:
Cordoba, 1917-21 142
Ofelia Pianetto
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8 Trade Union Organisation: Some Forgotten Aspects 160
Ruth Thompson
9 Economic Restructuring and Labour Scarcity: Labour in
the 1920s 177
Colin M. Lewis
10 Intellectuals, Universities and the Social Question:
Argentina, 1898-16 199
Eduardo A. Zimmermann
11 Barrio Societies, Libraries and Culture in the Popular
Sectors of Buenos Aires in the Inter-war Period 217
Leandro H. Gutierrez and Luis Alberto Romero
Index 235
List of Tables and Figures
Tables
1.1 Rural and urban population of Argentina, 1869-1930 7
1.2 Number of industrial units, average size and average
number of employees in Argentina, 1985, 1914 and 1935 10
1.3 Principal occupations in Argentina analysed by gender
and place of birth 12
2.1 Population of the city of Buenos Aires 35
2.2 Wood and zinc housing (houses and rooms) and
occupants in the city of Buenons Aires, 1936 42
2.3 Proportional spending of working-class family budgets 44
2.4 Building in Buenos Aires: number of permits and the area
covered, 1900-38 (five-year totals) 48
5.1 Rural wages by job category in the province of Buenos
Aires, 1898-1914 (pesos per day) 99
5.2 Rural wages in the province of Buenos Aires by region
(pesos) 100
6.1 Evolution of the meat industry 113
6.2 Employment by nationality and gender in the armour
and Swift meat-packers 118
6.3 Origins of native-born workforce in Armour and Swift
meat-packers 119
6.4 Age of workforce in Armour and Swift meat-packers 121
6.5 Length of employment in Armour meat-packers 124
6.6 Length of employment in Swift meat-packers 126
6.7 Frequency of re-entry to Armour and Swift meat-packing
plants 128
9.1 Annual rates of change in GDP (per capita) and
population, 1910-30 183
9.2 Industrial wages, 1914--30 187
Figures
1.1 Argentine immigration and emigration 4
1.2 Industrial wages and cost of living in Argentina, 1914--30 8
1.3 Strikes in the Federal Capital, 1907-29 18
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List of Plates
1. The scale of the steel industry: a foundry in Buenos Aires in the
first decade of the twentieth century
2. A new occupation for women: a secretary at work in the 1920s
3. The Secretary of the Cart-Drivers' Union, Jose M. Garcia,
listening to fellow workers (January 1911)
4. A taller: cobblers in Buenos Aires (August 1926)
5. The federal police clearing the port of Buenos Aires of strikers
during the Semana Tragica (January 1919)
6. At the bottom end of the self-employed: a travelling salesman
7. Workers assaulting a train during the Great Rail Strike of 1912
(January 1912)
8. A threshing crew near Lujan in the Province of Buenos Aires
(January 1912)
9. The eviction of families during the uprising of tenants in Buenos
Aires (October 1907)
Source: Archivo General de 1a Naci6n, Buenos Aires.
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