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Cycles of class struggle and the making of the working class in Argentina, 1890–1920

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 February 2009

Extract

There is currently a renewed interest in the relationship between economic fluctations and strike movements which refers back to an article by Eric Hobsbawm1 and an even earlier polemical piece by Leon Trotsky.2 This article offers a contribution to the growing literature, focusing, unlike most other studies, on a Third.World country. It also reflects the increasing influence of social history in Latin American research on the making of the working class.

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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1987

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