Summary - TST 36
TRANSPORTES, SERVICIOS Y TELECOMUNICACIONES
Florencia D’UVA
Un episodio en la lucha por la reglamentación del trabajo ferroviario en la Argentina: la huelga de maquinistas y fogoneros de 1912
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[ Abstract ]
This paper analyses the strike of train drivers and stokers of
the Argentinian railroads at the beginning of 1912. This
struggle implied a challenge for La Fraternidad union, whose
members from all the country abandoned their job simultaneously
for the first time in their job history. Both, companies and
government, also had to face the consequences of the rail
traffic paralisys. This research explores the development of the
strike, paying attention to the complaints, demands and all
action taken by the workers during the conflict. It is deemed
that the analysis of the struggle constitutes a privileged
framework to examine the way in which railroad workers
experienced their job and life conditions and articulated
demands addressed not only to the railway companies but also to
the government. The research relies on a large documentary
corpus that includes union, political and national newspapers,
La Fraternidad’s intern documents, official records of the
union, reports and memories elaborated by government
institutions and railways companies.