1. The First Factories: The Dawn of Argentine Industry, 1870s-1890s

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS vii
3. List of Figures ix
4. List of Tables x
5. Acknowledgments xiii
6. Abbreviations xvii
7. Introduction: Industrialization in an Agrarian Economy 1
8. 1. The First Factories: The Dawn of Argentine Industry, 1870s-1890s 16
9. 2. The Market as an Object of Desire: The Rise of Domestic Industrial Consumption 49
10. 3. The Victory of Big Business: Industrial Growth in the First Decades of the Twentieth Century 86
11. 4. Only One Argentina: The Creation of a National Market for Manufactured Goods 125
12. 5. Tension and Harmony in the Industrial Family: Entrepreneurs and Workers in Argentina's Factories 152
13. 6. Money and Factories: The Myths and Realities of Industrial Financing 177
14. 7. The Empire of Pragmatism: Politics and Industry in the Period 1880-1930 204
15. A Midway Industrialization: Concluding Remarks 237
16. Appendices 249
17. Notes 259
18. Bibliography 343
19. Index 385