La unidad corporativa de la burguesía agropecuaria pampeana frente a los conflictos laborales: del clamor represivo al golpe de Estado. Argentina, 1964-1966

Abstract

In this article we analyze the political positioning of the corporate bodies of the agricultural bourgeois groups in Argentina against the labor conflicts carried out between 1964 and 1966. Our aim is to discuss the dominant historiography that is focused on the confrontations between small farmers and large landowners, leaving aside the times when both sectors converge. This article shows that there is a unity of interests within the agricultural bourgeoisie when facing the demands of rural workers. Through the analysis, it could be observed that there was an agreement between small farmers and large landowners in demanding a repressive government intervention to face labor conflicts. Given that this order is not followed by the democratic government in place, the agricultural bourgeoisie ends up supporting the coup accomplished in 1966. For the first time in several years, the government displayed a repressive offensive to discipline the labor movement and deterred the labor disputes in rural Argentina. This research is part of our doctoral Dissertation in History, and its methodology is based on the analysis of documents produced by the corporations studied, newspapers and printed press of the period.