El problema de la productividad en Argentina: perspectivas locales y transnacionales entre el primer peronismo y el frondicismo

Abstract

The purpose of this article is to examine the issue of labor productivity in Argentina through the positions supported by the State and the employers, as well as the positions emanating from international agencies, particularly the International Labor Organization, in order to determine the local specificities andtransnational convergences. The time period analyzed ranges from the first Peronism (1946-1955), the self-styled military government Revolución Libertadora (1955-1958) and the government of Arturo Frondizi (1958-1962). This last period corresponds to the most advanced state and business policies on the subject. It is argued that the persistence of various perspectives that coexisted between employees and employers, may have allowed workers to negotiate more favorable working conditions at the plant level, in the context of significant struggles to avoid the loss of the conquests obtained during the first Peronism. This explains that the so-called “productivity problem” will reappear in Argentina as an unresolved dispute until the last Argentine military dictatorship from 1976 to 1983.