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Historia Crítica
versión impresa ISSN 0121-1617
Resumen
CARUSO, Laura. The Strike, the Carnival and the Elections: The World of Dock Work in Buenos Aires and the Configuration of a Working-Class Community in the Summer of 1904. hist.crit. [online]. 2019, n.73, pp.163-191. ISSN 0121-1617. https://doi.org/10.7440/histcrit73.2019.08.
Objective/context:
This paper inquires about the process of emergence of a working-class community in the port of Buenos Aires, resulting from actions by workers and inhabitants of the working-class neighborhood at the beginning of the 20th century.
Originality:
At the crossroads of diverse historiographies (social, cultural and political history), this paper proposes a joint regard at the labor dimension, worker disputes, carnival celebrations and electoral participation, and to use this multiplicity of events and experiences to think about the emergence of a radicalized worker community, with a particular identity gestated in the mobilization during a specific time at the beginning of the 20th century.
Methodology:
The months from late 1903 to early 1904 were an important juncture in the port district, and based on a diverse set of documents (commercial, neighborhood, trade and left-wing newspapers, news magazines, police reports, photographs, among others), this paper reconstructs the worker experience in three settings converging in the summer months: protest, carnival and legislative polls. At the same time, it ponders the territorial dimension of community configuration and the key places that formed the backdrop to a story of protest, celebration, and elections.
Conclusions:
This analysis shows us that worker sociabilities around the port consolidated a community based on family, corporate, partisan, neighborhood and worker solidarities, in times of labor, political and festive mobilization, and of radicalized confrontation with the State and with corporations.
Palabras clave : Buenos Aires; experience; working class community; world of dock work..