Publications

Pronko, M.A.
Labour Universities in Argentina and Brazil: an account of the proposals made for their establishment; between myth and oblivion

Montevideo: Cinterfor/ILO, 2003
311 pp. (Tools for Change, 21)

 

Original title: "Entre o mito e o esquecimento: as propostas de criação de Universidades do Trabalho na Argentina e no Brasil na primeira metade do século XX" ("Between myth and oblivion: proposals for the creation of Labour Universities in Argentina and Brazil in the first half of the 20th century").

(Full text only available in Spanish in pdf format)

 

Translation by Silvina Carrizo and Claudio Barría Mancilla.

This book is the outcome of the research work, submitted as a PhD thesis on Social History, at the Fluminense Federal University (Brazil) in April 2002. The research objective was to study the projects for the creation of Labour Universities in Argentina and Brazil during the first half of the 20th century. It aims to analyse the impact of those initiatives on the respective countries, in order to build up an explanation about the different levels of institutionalization achieved by them and the long-term failure of the proposed model. The author seeks to escape the classic debate domain concerning "Varguism", "Peronism" or "populism", since it is too much explored but also insufficient to spell out all disparities of the social universe in both countries under study. Therefore, she strives to identify multiple interests and objectives that influenced the educational proposals oriented toward training for work. Thus, she attempts to distinguish various trade union modalities (in their struggle for a certain kind of training for workers), employers' associations (whose projects quite differ from the first) and, finally, the properly academic or scientific trends (teachers and engineers), as well as the influence of the Catholic Church and international fora in defining and implementing those initiatives.

 

 

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