Estructura productiva y sujetos sociales en la expansión del ovino. El caso del partido de Saladillo en 1870

Abstract

The capitalist expansion in the bonaerense's agriculture during the second half of the XIXth century was associated to the "fever of wool". In this work we intend to analyze the economic strategies of the land owners, in the matter of combination of rent and profit (direct production or renting), and, at the same time, we intend to achieve a better knowledge of the social agrarian structure of the cattle-rising in the wool era, distinguishing the numeric weight and the productive signification of the different rural producers, based on the place that they got in the social organization of work, the size of their sheep and cattle stock, and the productive orientation that they developed. The discovery of an unusual statistic source has let us make more precise the analysis of this matter, at least for a district of the Buenos Aires province (Saladillo) towards 1870, at the half of the sheep expansion period.