“Where the captain commands, the sailor does not govern”? Maritime work on the Río de la Plata, 1890-1920

Authors

  • Laura Gabriela Caruso Universidad de Buenos Aires

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5007/1984-9222.2010v2n3p47

Keywords:

maritime work , labor process, onboard labor conditions

Abstract

This work aims to rebuild forms of work on board, organization and maritime, workflow as one of the dimensions of the history of maritime workers in the río de la Plata, their characteristics (composition of sections, tasks and qualifications) and working conditions in the years ranging from 1890 to 1920. To the have formed a group significant visibility, both central activity in national economic structure and its Union actions addressed here study of one of the dimensions of the experience of the on-board workers, the labour, developed aboard vessels operating within the port or they that sailed upstream until Matto Grosso, Asunción in Paraguay, the cities of the coast or the Patagonian coast.

Author Biography

Laura Gabriela Caruso, Universidad de Buenos Aires

Profesora de Historia (UBA); Estudiante de Maestría en Historia (IDAES-UNSAM); Becaria de Posgrado Tipo I CONICET, Doctoranda UBA, proyecto de investigación “Los trabajadores marítimos en la Argentina, 1890-1943”.

Published

2010-08-24

How to Cite

CARUSO, Laura Gabriela. “Where the captain commands, the sailor does not govern”? Maritime work on the Río de la Plata, 1890-1920. Revista Mundos do Trabalho, Florianópolis, v. 2, n. 3, p. 47–59, 2010. DOI: 10.5007/1984-9222.2010v2n3p47. Disponível em: https://periodicos.ufsc.br/index.php/mundosdotrabalho/article/view/1984-9222.2010v2n3p47. Acesso em: 14 mar. 2025.

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