Making a living in war times: Wages in Tucuman in the first half of the 19th century

In a political and economic context so troubled and chaotic as the first decades of the 19th century, obtaining resources for subsistence was without doubt, one of the main challenges for most of the population in Tucumán. The shortage of money, the erratic behavior of prices, the demands of the war...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor: Parolo, María Paula
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2019
País:Argentina
Institución:Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas
Repositorio:CONICET Digital (CONICET)
Idioma:español
OAI Identifier:oai:ri.conicet.gov.ar:11336/145317
Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/11336/145317
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:JOB
SUBSISTENCE
WAGES
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Sumario:In a political and economic context so troubled and chaotic as the first decades of the 19th century, obtaining resources for subsistence was without doubt, one of the main challenges for most of the population in Tucumán. The shortage of money, the erratic behavior of prices, the demands of the war, and the conflictive building of the provincial State, among other factors, created a situation of instability and uncertainty that impacted on the level and evolution of wages. In this context, the local historiography ventured into the behavior of the salaries of public employees, from a vast salary scale spanning different social urban sectors of the nineteenth-century. This article expands the spectrum of analysis including skilled and unskilled private-sector workers.