Women, Peonage, and Industrialization: Argentina, 1810-1914
In: Latin American research review: LARR ; the journal of the Latin American Studies Association (LASA), Band 16, Heft 3, S. 65
ISSN: 0023-8791
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In: Latin American research review: LARR ; the journal of the Latin American Studies Association (LASA), Band 16, Heft 3, S. 65
ISSN: 0023-8791
In: Latin American research review, Band 16, Heft 3, S. 65-90
ISSN: 1542-4278
In recent years, a body of literature analyzing development and modernization since the world wars has emphasized the diverse tasks women perform in premodern agrarian societies as compared to incipient industrial economies. The greater input of women in many nonmechanized societies, compared to their role thereafter, has been seen as the key to understanding why the introduction of machine technology has often resulted in the subsequent general unemployment or underemployment of working-class women.
In: Journal of Latin American studies, Band 11, Heft 1, S. 123-144
ISSN: 1469-767X
Until the 1870s, Argentina was principally a pastoral nation totally depenlent upon trade with more advanced nations to provide basic necessities. Yet, within a brief span of about thirty years, it became a major producer of livestock products, cereals and flour for export, and of a wide variety of foodstuffs and other consumer goods for internal consumption. Most of this had been achieved by the application of protective tariffs to nascent industrial activities, and by the importation and use of new machinery and technology to process available raw materials. Thus, unlike other Latin American nations which had not yet begun the arduous process of modernization, Argentina had already embarked on a program of import substitution and State-encouraged industrialization in the late nineteenth century.
In: Latin American research review: LARR ; the journal of the Latin American Studies Association (LASA), Band 13, Heft 1, S. 135
ISSN: 0023-8791
In: Latin American research review, Band 13, Heft 1, S. 135-145
ISSN: 1542-4278
The history of the Argentine interior during the nineteenth century has often escaped the attention of researchers attracted to the dramatic economic and political growth of the eastern riverine provinces. Included in this oversight has been the plight of the rural laboring classes, unless associated with studies of immigrants. It has been easier to trace the impact and lifestyles of coastal elites—the estanciero, the merchant, the caudillo, and the politician—and the urban working class, than to reconstruct the life of the provincial peon. The study of the lower classes in general has been further impeded by the dramatic but stereotyped visions of the gaucho and other rural characters immortalized by writers such as Sarmiento, Hernández, Güiraldes, and Martínez Estrada. Finally, the illteracy of creole workers has left us with limited personal records of their existence. Yet despite all the inconveniences involved in the study of the rural working class, it is still possible to reconstruct aspects of its social, political, and economic conditions.
In: The journal of economic history, Band 36, Heft 2, S. 500-501
ISSN: 1471-6372
In: The journal of economic history, Band 35, Heft 3, S. 663-664
ISSN: 1471-6372
In: The journal of economic history, Band 35, Heft 2, S. 468-469
ISSN: 1471-6372
In: Journal of Latin American studies, Band 42, Heft 2, S. 396-398
ISSN: 0022-216X
In: The women's review of books, Band 9, Heft 8, S. 8
In: Desarrollo económico: revista de ciencias sociales, Band 28, Heft 111, S. 353
ISSN: 1853-8185
In: Desarrollo económico: revista de ciencias sociales, Band 22, Heft 87, S. 351
ISSN: 1853-8185
In: Desarrollo económico: revista de ciencias sociales, Band 19, Heft 73, S. 3
ISSN: 1853-8185
In: Desarrollo económico: revista de ciencias sociales, Band 16, Heft 64, S. 505
ISSN: 1853-8185