Producing and harvesting tobacco in Northern Argentina. Between the social control and the interventionist-welfare state (1920-1960)

Abstract

This regional historical study analyzes the production and living conditions of to- bacco’s farmers (croppers and harvesters) in northern Argentina (25.7% of the country). This territory’s development was delayed due to the predominance of the agro-exporting model since the late Nineteenth Century. In this border region, the internal contrasts were significant: a high bourgeoisie in the northwest (NOA) which is absent in the northeast (NEA). By analyzing original primary sources, this article focuses on the subjects of social control carried out in a planned economy.