Post by account_disabled on Mar 6, 2024 0:22:45 GMT -5
The integrative power of liberal Argentina To begin this task it is convenient to highlight with a few broad strokes the very considerable potential for integration that the market and society exhibited in the golden years of export growth. Although always underestimated in studies on the left the general features of the process of economic expansion and its impact on the improvement of popular wellbeing are well established in the historical literature. of that stage of rapid integration of the goods capital and labor markets that ran between the s and the Great War a stage known as First Globalization.
In those decades thanks to the boost of its thriving agroexport economy this Russia Mobile Number List republic grew faster than the United States Great Britain France or Germany in addition of course than any other nation in Latin America. By Argentina was among the countries with the highest per capita income. In those years Argentina became the main destination for foreign investment in Latin America. Its accelerated growth in a context of labor force shortage also made it very attractive to workers particularly those from southern Europe whom it tempted not only with higher salaries than those prevailing in their countries of origin but also with greater opportunities for job improvement and with the seductive promise of social advancement.
These factors explain why Argentina was along with the United States the preferred American destination for European migrants crossing the Atlantic and to an even greater extent than the United States the country in the world that received the most foreigners in proportion to its population in those decades. So massive was this movement that in the Pampas regions and in the big cities foreign workers outnumbered natives.. In relation to the topic at hand what is notable is that the majority of these migrants arrived in the Ro de la Plata motivated by an individual or family improvement project that they believed was possible in a society that due to its relatively late development in comparison With other prosperous immigration destinations it not only offered high wages and ample employment opportunities but also promised social mobility.