The first construction strikes and the beginnings of the struggle for the reduction of the working day in Buenos Aires (1893-1895)
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https://doi.org/10.5007/1984-9222.2012v4n7p198Keywords:
Strike, Workers movement;, Working class, Eight-hour dayAbstract
Following the significant wave of strikes which took place in Buenos Aires between 1888 and 1889, the impact of the economic crisis caused a serious shrinkage in the emerging labor unrest in a context marked by an increase in unemployment and emigration. The reversal of this cycle was to come by the end of 1893 and early 1894, and was indisputably linked to the organization of workers in the construction trades. Unlike what happened in the years 1888-1889, in this cycle strike the workers' demands focused less on the wage claim and concentrated in the reduction of working time. This paper will seek to recover this important process of organization and unrest among construction workers, one of the main sectors of employment of labor in Buenos Aires at the time, that despite having been little studied constitutes a fundamental antecedent of the outbreak of conflicts in the year 1896.
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