Characteristics and functioning of a specific labor market: Domestic service in Buenos Aires (late 19th and early 20th century)

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05/2017
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Revista Brasileira de Historia
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0102-0188
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1806-9347
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Este artículo se centra en las características y el funcionamiento del mercado de trabajo organizado en torno al servicio doméstico en la ciudad de Buenos Aires a fines del siglo XIX y principios del XX. Analiza las diferentes instituciones sociales, culturales y legales que le dieron forma y sustento. Evidencia que coexistieron lógicas económicas, procesos culturales y prácticas sociales con distintos contenidos de racionalidad. Que la estructura y la dinámica específica que asumió condicionaron en gran medida lo que los y las sirvientes podían ser y hacer. Que la naturaleza particular de este mercado de trabajo dio lugar a relaciones de subordinación y dependencia que tuvieron efectos sobre la estructura de relaciones de aquella sociedad porteña.
This article focuses on the characteristics and operation of the labor market organized around domestic service in the city of Buenos Aires in the late 19th and early 20th century. It analyses the different social, cultural and legal institutions that both gave shape to it and laid its foundations. It shows that in its creation economic rationales, cultural processes, and social practices with different logics coexisted. It also shows that its specific structure and dynamics determined to a large extent what servants could do and be, and that the specific nature of this labor market favored relations of subordination and dependence that impacted on the social structure of that society.
This article focuses on the characteristics and operation of the labor market organized around domestic service in the city of Buenos Aires in the late 19th and early 20th century. It analyses the different social, cultural and legal institutions that both gave shape to it and laid its foundations. It shows that in its creation economic rationales, cultural processes, and social practices with different logics coexisted. It also shows that its specific structure and dynamics determined to a large extent what servants could do and be, and that the specific nature of this labor market favored relations of subordination and dependence that impacted on the social structure of that society.
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