Abstract

NORANDO, Verónica  and  WERTHEIMER BECICH, Lautaro M.. Working conditions in the textile industry in Buenos Aires, 1939-1946. An overview from the economy, social history and gender studies. Ciclos hist. econ. soc. [online]. 2018, vol.29, n.50, pp.1-20. ISSN 1851-3735.

From an interdisciplinary analysis, which collects contributions from social history, economics and gender studies, we try to reconstruct the experiences of workers in the textile industry, going deeper into wage labor and domestic work , or care work, unpaid. The study focuses on Buenos Aires during 1939-1946, when the Argentine Communist Party (PC) was the leadership of the union, the Union Obrera Textil (UOT). After having penetrated previously unused or non-questioned documentation on these issues, we found that the labor experiences of the female textile workers were very different from those of the men and we showed that these differences were due to gender and not to other issues such as the qualification, for example, since in spite of having more qualified positions, the wage of the women was markedly inferior to that of the men. We also showed that the textile workers had a particular class experience determined by their role in domestic work, which the PC was able to detect, it had political answers against which, and constituted demands in this situation.

Keywords : textile industry, working conditions, gender, communism..

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