Sectoral clashes and forgotten classes : rural workers and the Peronist state, 1946-1948

Through a case study illustrating the 1946-1948 labor militancy among harvest workers in the province of Santa Fe, this study examines why rural workers failed to appear alongside their urban counterparts in the union movement under Perón. The Santa Fe harvest strikes demonstrate how rural workers struggled to integrate themselves into a broader Peronist labor movement. However, rural workers did not manage to link their struggle with urban forces and were ultimately unsuccessful in achieving their desired goals vis-à-vis the government. This is largely because rural workers protested unfair government policy towards the agricultural sector and disrupted the exportable harvest, an integral component of economic activity upon which Perón relied to finance industrialization and distributive social programming. As a result, Perón oppressed rural workers in the interests of his urban populist coalition and its plans for industrialization.

Name thesis:degree_name

Master of Arts

Level thesis:degree_level

Masters

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Latin American Studies

Grantor

University of Texas at Austin

Year dc:date.issued

2007

Author dc:creator

• Engels, Josephine Leona, 1981-

Advisor dc:contributor.advisor

• Brown, Jonathan C. (Jonathan Charles), 1942-

• Argentina (Labor history)
• Argentina (Agricultural workers)
• Juan Peron

Statement dc:rights

• Copyright © is held by the author. Presentation of this material on the Libraries' web site by University Libraries, The University of Texas at Austin was made possible under a limited license grant from the author who has retained all copyrights in the works.

Language dc:language.iso

eng

Identifier

doi:10.15781/T2SX64F08

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:repositories.lib.utexas.edu:2152/44553