Essays in Argentine Labour History, 1870-1930

From 1870 to 1930 Argentina underwent massive changes. The development of the working classes shaped the direction of those changes by promoting democratization and economic redistribution. This text looks at the formation and weaknesses of the Argentine working classes during this period.

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The political economy of labour in Argentina, 1870-1930, Jeremy Adelman; workers' housing and living conditions in Buenos Aires, 1880-1930, Leandro H. Gutierrez and Juan Suriano; between rise and fall - self-employed workers in Buenos Aires, 1850-1880, Luis Alberto Romero and Hilda Sabato; typographical workers and their mutualist experience - the case of the "Sociedad Tipografica Bonaerense", 1857-1880, Sylvia Badoza; the harvest hand - wage-labouring on the pampas, 1880-1914, Jeremy Adelman; work and conflict in the meat packing industry, 1900-1930, Mirta Zaida Lobato; the labour movement and the historical conjuncture - Cordoba, 1917-1921, Ofelia Pianetto; trade union organization - some forgotten aspects, Ruth Thompson; economic restructuring and labour scarcity - labour in the 1920s, Colin M. Lewis; intellectuals, universities and the social question - Argentina, 1898-1916, Eduardo A. Zimmermann; Barrio societies, libraries and culture in the popular sectors of Buenos Aires in the inter-war period, Leandro H. Gutierrez and Luis Alberto Romero.