Between the 1870s, when the great influx of European immigrants
began, and the start of World War I, Argentina underwent a radical
alteration of its social composition and patterns of economic
productivity. Mark Szuchman, in this groundbreaking study, examines
the occupational, residential, educational, and economic patterns
of mobility of some four thousand men, women, and children who
resided in Cordoba, Argentina's most important interior city,
during this changeful era. Through several kinds of samples,
Szuchman provides a widely encompassing social picture of Cordoba,
describing, among others, the unskilled laborer, the immigrant
bachelor in search of roots and identity, the merchant seeking or
giving credit, and the member of the elite, blind to some of the
realities around him. The challenge that the pursuit of security
entailed for most people and the failure of so many to persist
successfully form a large part of that picture. The author has made
ample use of quantitative techniques, but secondary materials are
also utilized to provide social perspectives that round out and
humanize the quantitative data. The use of record linkage as the
essential research method makes this work the first book on
Argentina to follow similar and very successful research
methodologies employed by U.S. historians.
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