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- Title
La política azucarera argentina: de la concertación sectorial al tutelaje estatal (1928-1949).
- Authors
Bravo, María Celia; Gutiérrez, Florencia
- Abstract
In the course of two decades the Argentinian sugar policy shifted from a sectoral consensus model, designed from the influx of the mobilization of sugarcane and the Laudo Alvear, to an intervention scheme promoted by the national government. During the decade of the 1930 the decisions of the House of Sugar Producers Trade Union, destined to harmonize the competing interests of industrialists and planters, were broken by the sugarcane growers. Recursively, these actors repudiated the raw material prices stipulated by the House, leaving the amicable sectoral route and resorted to strike in order to resolve their distributive demands. The "June revolution" of 1943 designed a new order that deeply involved the national state in the operation of the sugar industry. The projection of a National Sugar Board, intended to comprehensively regulate the activity, and the creation of a Special Fund for Compensation and Social Assistance, which recognized industrial and sugarcane growers the largest production costs and expenses resulting from social policy, revealed a substantial change in sugar policy. The Peronist government assumed this institutional design. Between 1946 and 1949, the expansion of social benefits and the increasing of annual obligations sharpened the distributive struggle and demanded greater state involvement. Finally, in 1949 the crisis in the balance of payments closed a cycle of prosperity and stripped the difficulties of the state to address the role of subsidies and compensation. This situation defined the outlines of a new policy expressed in the creation of the Directorate of the Sugar industry, rationalization and production efficiency.
- Subjects
ARGENTINA; SUGAR industry; LABOR unions; RAW material sales &; prices; INDUSTRIAL costs; INDUSTRIAL management; INDUSTRIAL efficiency; GOVERNMENT policy
- Publication
H-Industria: Revista de Historia de la Industria Argentina y Latinoamericana, 2014, Vol 8, Issue 14, p153
- ISSN
1853-550X
- Publication type
Article