Chimneys in the desert
Subtitle: industrialization in Argentina during the export boom years, 1870-1930
By: Fernando Rocchi.
Series: Social science history
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Stanford, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 394
Subjects: Industrialization -- Argentina
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The first factories: the dawn of Argentine industry, 1870s-1890s; title: The market as an object of desire: the rise of domestic industrial consumption; title: The victory of big business: industrial growth in the first decades of the twentieth century; title: Only one Argentina: the creation of a national market for manufactured goods; title: Tension and harmony in the industrial family: entrepreneurs and workers in Argentina's factories; title: Money and factories: the myths and realities of industrial financing; title: The empire of pragmatism: politics and industry in the period 1880-1930.