Chimneys in the desert : industrialization in Argentina during the export boom years, 1870-1930 /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Rocchi, Fernando
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2006.
Series:Social science history.
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Online Access:Table of contents
Table of Contents:
  • The first factories: the dawn of Argentine industry, 1870s-1890s
  • The market as an object of desire: the rise of domestic industrial consumption
  • The victory of big business: industrial growth in the first decades of the twentieth century
  • Only one Argentina: the creation of a national market for manufactured goods
  • Tension and harmony in the industrial family: entrepreneurs and workers in Argentina's factories
  • Money and factories: the myths and realities of industrial financing
  • The empire of pragmatism: politics and industry in the period 1880-1930.