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- Title
Listas negras y protesta obrera. El Ferrocarril Central Argentino y sus trabajadores durante la Primera Guerra Mundial.
- Authors
Badaloni, Laura
- Abstract
The main objective of this article is to analyze the corporate policies of the Ferrocarril Central Argentino and the worker's responses in the context of World War I. In this sense, the research question it poses is: What was the impact of World War I in labor relations within a British railroad company installed in Argentina? Based on the triangulation of diverse types of sources (company files, union newspapers, official government documents and Foreign Office correspondence) it shows, on the one hand, the company's symbolic use of the war to justify wage cuts and layoffs and to involve segments of the working class in support of the British army. On the other hand, it also shows the limitations of the company's patriotic discourse and how its co-optation strategies failed to block the worker's participation in violent protests.
- Subjects
ARGENTINA; INDUSTRIAL relations; RAILROAD strikes &; lockouts; ECONOMICS; WORLD War I; RAILROADS; EMPLOYEE rules; PATRIOTISM; LABOR blacklisting
- Publication
Historia Crítica, 2017, Issue 66, p45
- ISSN
0121-1617
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.7440/histcrit66.2017.03