Workers, Citizens and the Argentine Nation: Party Politics and the Working Class in Rosario, 1912–3

In: Journal of Latin American studies, Band 31, Heft 3, S. 589-616

Abstract

The electoral democracy created by the Sáenz Peña Law of 1912 opened
up dramatic new possibilities for working-class political identity. In the important
port city of Rosario, the Radical politician Ricardo Caballero crafted a political
discourse that combined an explicit defence of working-class interests with a
nostalgic depiction of the country's rural past. By linking class consciousness
with images drawn from the popular culture of the 'gauchesque,' Caballerismo
constructed a distinctively working-class version of Argentine nationalism and
citizenship.