Chimneys in the desert

Rocchi, Fernando, 1959-

Chimneys in the desert industrialization in Argentina during the export boom years, 1870-1930 / [electronic resource] : Fernando Rocchi. - Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2006. - xviii, 394 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. - Social science history . - Social science history. .

Includes bibliographical references (p. 343-383) and index.

Introduction : Industrialization in an agrarian economy --The first factories : the dawn of Argentine industry, 1870s-1890s -- The market as an object of desire : the rise of domestic industrial consumption -- The victory of big business : industrial growth in the first decades of the twentieth century -- Only one Argentina: the creation of a national market for manufactured goods -- Tension and harmony in the industrial family : entrepreneurs and workers in argentina's factories -- Money and factories : the myths and realities of industrial financing -- The empire of pragmatism : politics and industry in the period 1880-1930.


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