Argentine Industry Research Articles

Argentina's blockbuster movies and the politics of culture under neoliberalism, 1989-98

The film industry in Argentina has witnessed a recent `boom' in commercial blockbuster movies that is bringing audiences back to see national films. These high budget productions are produced in part by large television channels that are utilizing state subsidies for these projects. While this translates into healthy growth for the film industry, it is transforming the character of national film production from a cultural project to a commercial product. Consequently, smaller, less commercial filmmakers are being slighted in favor of these larger corporate entities; a move that contradicts the original intent of improved film legislation passed in 1994. This tension between film production as a form of national culture or a commercial industry is emblematic of the cultural politics waged in current President Menem's administration - a government characterized by its neoliberal economic reform and ties to global business.

Effects of food preservatives on Alternaria alternata growth and tenuazonic acid production

The effects of different organic acids on Alternaria alternata growth and tenuazonic acid production (TeA) were evaluated. Both TeA pure toxin solution and TeA production in solid medium were considered. Sodium benzoate, potassium sorbate and sodium propionate, all preservatives commonly used by food industry in Argentina, were tested. TeA was stable as pure toxin solution when was treated with the salts of organic acids used. A differential effect was observed when the preservatives were evaluated in relation to A. alternata growth and TeA production in solid medium. Levels above 10mg/kg of sodium benzoate and potassium sorbate produced a total inhibition of fungal development and toxin biosynthesis. Sodium propionate produced a 59% decrease in A. alternata growth and total inhibition of TeA production only at the highest concentration of preservatives used.

Argentina’s Industrial Specialization Regime: New-generation industrial policy, or merely a transfer of resources?

The combination of rapidly increasing trade openness with sharp exchange-rate appreciation formed the context in which Argentine industry had to carry out its production restructuring process from 1991 on. The inability of the spontaneous market forces to spark off this process led the Argentine government to adopt a number of measures designed to correct the problem of relative prices and further the restructuring process through fiscal means. In this context, the Industrial Specialization Regime (ISR) was established with the main objective of promoting export specialization by industrial firms. This regime was based on a subsidy for incremental exports which took the form of access at preferential tariff rates to the importation of goods similar to those exported or forming part of a given production chain of complex goods. The aim of the present article is to make a theoretical and empirical analysis of this policy instrument (in its dual dimension of restructuring policy and export subsidy), examining its underlying theoretical bases, questions relating to its design, application and control, and finally, its effects on the industrial sector.

Growth and Decline of the Military-Industrial Complex: the Cases of Argentina and Brazil

This article examines most significant causes of the development of a weapons industry in Argentina and Brazil. International market and political conditions, domestic economic and political determinants, and regional contextual factors explain the evolution and makeup of the military industrial complex in these countries. The article examines all three sources and provides a summary profile of the arms sector in each country. Developments in the 1980 and early 1990s - domestic, regional, and international - have resulted in the near-collapse of arms production in Argentina and Brazil. In the last section, the implications of this dramatic contraction are explored.

El ciclo inmobiliario: La experiencia argentina y el caso de las provincias de Neuquén y Río Negro

This work presents data examining the effect that the economic cycles have on the building industry. The article has three sections: The first looks into the relationship between the real estate market fluctuations and the stock market. The second examines the building industry in Argentina as influenced by the plan de convertibilidad, with its 1994-1995 economic recession. The third analyzes its housing conditions in the southern provinces of Neuquen and Rio Negro and their effects on the quality of life.

Globalização, tecnologia e relações de trabalho

Definindo a globalização como a aceleração intensa dos processos de internacionalização e mundialização, inerentes ao capitalismo desde sua fase original nos séculos XV e XVI, o autor destaca os efeitos da terceira revolução tecnológica, centrada na informática e nas telecomunicações, com influência dominante a partir da década dos 70 do século XX. Focaliza, em especial, as empresas multinacionais como agentes privilegiados da globalização, bem como suas relações com os Estados-nação e as mudanças na atuação destes últimos. Merecem igualmente atenção as alterações na posição relativa da indústria e do setor de serviços na sociedade contemporânea. Focalizando o processos concretos da globalização no âmbito empírico da indústria automobilística, o estudo se detém nas questões referentes ao fordismo e ao chamado modelo japonês de produção flexível, daí se aprofundando no tema das relações de trabalho. A esse respeito, a análise salienta a questão do desemprego estrutural e examina suas possíveis causas principais. O autor apresenta um painel detalhado e atualizado da indústria automobilística no Brasil, enriquecido por um anexo estatístico, enfatizando as relações entre montadoras e fabricantes de autopeças e entre empresas e trabalhadores. O contraponto com a situação da indústria automobilística na Argentina e no México permite estabelecer comparações e refletir sobre perspectivas futuras.

Peopling the Pampa: On the Impact of Mass Migration to the River Plate, 1870–1914

The Argentine economy was transformed in the late nineteenth century by the mass migration of millions of Europeans. Various ideas have surfaced concerning the likely impact of this labor inflow: that it favored the wheat revolution on the pampa; that it promoted urbanization and the rapid growth of Buenos Aires; that it paved the way for Argentine industrialization; that it caused slack in the labor markets, lowering wages. This paper attempts an analysis of the impact of migration on the scale and structure of the Argentine economy and tries to resolve various competing hypotheses. The paper presents a new social accounting matrix (SAM) for Argentina and uses it to calibrate a CGE model. My results suggest that immigration enhanced Argentina's comparative advantage as a cereal producer and exporter, encouraged extensive growth on the pampa, and markedly lowered real wages.

James P. Brennan. <italic>The Labor Wars in Córdoba, 1955–1976: Ideology, Work, and Labor Politics in an Argentine Industrial City</italic>. (Harvard Historical Studies, number 116.) Cambridge: Harvard University Press. 1994. Pp. xi, 440. $59.95

James P. Brennan. The Labor Wars in Córdoba, 1955–1976: Ideology, Work, and Labor Politics in an Argentine Industrial City. (Harvard Historical Studies, number 116.) Cambridge: Harvard University Press. 1994. Pp. xi, 440. $59.95 Get access Brennan James P.. The Labor Wars in Córdoba, 1955–1976: Ideology, Work, and Labor Politics in an Argentine Industrial City. (Harvard Historical Studies, number 116.) Cambridge: Harvard University Press. 1994. Pp. xi, 440. $59.95. Peter Winn Peter Winn Tufts University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The American Historical Review, Volume 101, Issue 4, October 1996, Pages 1321–1322, https://doi.org/10.1086/ahr/101.4.1321 Published: 01 October 1996

The Labor Wars in Cordoba, 1955-1976: Ideology, Work, and Labor Politics in an Argentine Industrial City.

The Labor Wars in Cordoba, 1955-1976: Ideology, Work, and Labor Politics in an Argentine Industrial City.

The Labor Wars in Córdoba, 1955–1976: Ideology, Work, and Labor Politics in an Argentine Industrial City. By James P. Brennan. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1994. 440p. $59.95.

The Labor Wars in Córdoba, 1955–1976: Ideology, Work, and Labor Politics in an Argentine Industrial City. By James P. Brennan. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1994. 440p. $59.95.

The Labor Wars in Cordoba, 1955-1976: Ideology, Work, and Labor Politics in an Argentine Industrial City.

Preface Abbreviations Introduction PART 1: CORDOBA 1. Industry, Society, and class 2. Union Politics 3. The Factory, the Union, and the New Industrial Worker PART 2: REBELLION 4. Cordoba and the Argentine Revolution 5. The Cordobazo 6. The Clasistas PART 3: THE PERONIST RESTORATION 7. Tosco and Salamanca 8. Peronists and Revolutionaries 9. Patria Metalurgica, Patria Socialista PART 4: THE POLITICS OF WORK 10. Work and Politics in Cordoba 11. Conclusion: The Sources of Working Class Politics in Cordoba Source Materials Notes Index

Book Review: Historical Studies: The Labor Wars in Córdoba, 1955–1976: Ideology, Work, and Labor Politics in an Argentine Industrial City

Book Review: Historical Studies: The Labor Wars in Córdoba, 1955–1976: Ideology, Work, and Labor Politics in an Argentine Industrial City

The Labor Wars in Córdoba, 1955–1976: Ideology, Work, and Labor Politics in an Argentine Industrial City. By James P. Brennan. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1994. Pp. xi, 440. $59.95.

The Labor Wars in Córdoba, 1955–1976: Ideology, Work, and Labor Politics in an Argentine Industrial City. By James P. Brennan. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1994. Pp. xi, 440. $59.95. - Volume 56 Issue 1

Public and private: insurance companies and medical care in Mexico

During the late 70's and early 80's in Mexico, as in the rest of Latin-America, sanitary policies were directed to support the growth of the private sector of health care at the expense of the public sector. This work analyzes the evolution of the health insurance market as a part of the privatization process of health care. The analysis based on economic data, provides the political profile behind the privatization process as well as the changes in the relations between the State and the health sector. The central hypothesis is that the State promotes and supports the growth of the private market of medical care via a series of legal, fiscal and market procedures. It also discusses the State roll in the legal changes related to the national insurance activity. A comparative analysis is made about the evolution of the insurance industry in Argentina, Brazil, Chile and Mexico during the period 1986-1992, with a particular enfasis in the last country. One of the principal results is that the Premium/GNP and Premium/per capita, display a general growth in the 4 countries. This growth is faster for Mexico for each one) because the privatization process occurred only during the most recent years. For the 1984-1991 period in Mexico the direct premium as percentage of the GNP raised from 0.86% to 1.32%. If one focussed only in the insurance for health and accidents branches the rice goes form 8.84% in 1984 to 19.08% in 1991. This indicates that the insurance industry is one of the main targets of the privatization process of the health care system in Mexico. This is also shown by the State support to fast expansion of the big medical industrial complex of the country. Considering this situation in the continuity of the neoliberal model of Mexico, this will profound the inequity and inequality.

The Labor Wars in Córdoba, 1955–1976: Ideology, Work, and Labor Politics in an Argentine Industrial City

The Labor Wars in Córdoba, 1955–1976: Ideology, Work, and Labor Politics in an Argentine Industrial City

The Labor Wars in Cordoba, 1955-1976: Ideology, Work, and Labor Politics in an Argentine Industrial City.

The Labor Wars in Cordoba, 1955-1976: Ideology, Work, and Labor Politics in an Argentine Industrial City.

The Automation Technology Transfer from Domestic R&D Centers to the Industry in Argentina

In the present work, an analysis is carried out on the technology transfer from R&D centers to the industrial sectors of Argentina, specially related to the areas of industrial automation and process control. This analysis is inserted in the frame of reference of the globalization of world economy and, at domestic level, the status-quo of the involved parts in technology transfer, namely, the Argentine State, the R&D centers and the recipient companies. The study also includes an assessment of the means for technology transfer put into practice in the present decade. Conclusions are drawn upon the potencialities and limitations of the argentine program for technology transfer.

Transnational corporations and structural changes in industry In Argentina, Brazil, Chile and Mexico

The central focus of this article is on the role played by transnational corporations in the industrial realignment of Argentina, Brazil, Chile and Mexico between the end of the import substitution stage and the early 1990s. Based on recently published studies dealing with the sweeping changes occurring in Latin America’s manufacturing sector following the region’s economic crisis and liberalization process, a computer programme developed by the ECLAC Division of Production, Productivity and Management has been used to examine the changes that have taken place in the sector’s production structure (sectoral composition and efficiency) and its linkages with the global economy.

NEW OIL SPILL ENVIRONMENT PROTECTION AND CONTINGENCY PLAN REQUIREMENTS—ARGENTINA

ABSTRACT As part of a concurrent wave of environmental awareness and restructuring of the oil industry in Argentina, the Secretariat of Energy, building upon an initial study by the Argentine Petroleum Institute, has developed several new regulations and guidelines designed to protect the environment. Exploration, development, and production of oilfields are now subject to new environment controls and the format and content of environment impact analyses, and oil spill contingency plans are defined. Offshore regulations are expected in 1994195.

New strategies of transnational corporations in Argentina

This article analyses current trends as regards the role of transnational corporations in Argentine industry in the light of the structural changes taking place on the domestic, regional and international fronts, as compared with the conditions prevailing during the application of the import substitution model. Section I describes the new conditions observed at the national and international levels which are forcing all business enterprises to redefine their production, commercial, financial and technological strategies, with the Argentine subsidiaries of transnational corporations playing the leading role in this process. In section II, the essential characteristics of the transnationals' presence in Argentine industry are evaluated, and the differences between current conditions and those that existed during the period of import substitution are identified. Next, on the basis of information obtained from the major transnationals in 1992, section III discusses some of the most striking aspects of the transitions in these corporations' strategies, within the context of the economic changes taking place in Argentina and that country's place in the global economy. Finally, section IV offers some closing comments.