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Workers, Citizens and the Argentine Nation: Party Politics and the Working Class in Rosario, 1912–3

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 October 1999

MATTHEW B. KARUSH
MATTHEW B. KARUSH
Affiliation:
George Mason University
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Abstract

The electoral democracy created by the Sáenz Peña Law of 1912 opened up dramatic new possibilities for working-class political identity. In the important port city of Rosario, the Radical politician Ricardo Caballero crafted a political discourse that combined an explicit defence of working-class interests with a nostalgic depiction of the country's rural past. By linking class consciousness with images drawn from the popular culture of the ‘gauchesque,’ Caballerismo constructed a distinctively working-class version of Argentine nationalism and citizenship.

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Research Article
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Journal of Latin American Studies , Volume 31 , Issue 3 , October 1999 , pp. 589 - 616
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© 1999 Cambridge University Press

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Footnotes

The research on which this article is based was made possible by a grant from the Social Science Research Council. I would like to thank Alison Landsberg, Oscar Videla, Marta Bonaudo, and the anonymous reviewers of the JLAS for their suggestions.