Regeneración. Cinema, trade union and anti-alcoholic propaganda among railway workers in Argentina in the late 1920s.
This article aims to explore the links between railway workers and alcohol in Argentina in the 1920s. In particular, it is interested in examining the critical discourses and actions that were deployed at the union level in an attempt to curb and contain the consumption of alcoholic drinks. It focus...
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Universidad Nacional de Rosario
2024
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| Sumario: | This article aims to explore the links between railway workers and alcohol in Argentina in the 1920s. In particular, it is interested in examining the critical discourses and actions that were deployed at the union level in an attempt to curb and contain the consumption of alcoholic drinks. It focuses on Regeneración, a silent film drama released in the country at the end of 1927 and produced for propaganda purposes by La Fraternidad, the locomotive workers' union.
The research seeks to understand the practices and spaces of alcohol consumption that existed among railway workers, and which formed part of their daily sociability, and the condemnation that the railway unions launched against the widespread worker's habit of drinking. It is particularly interested in investigating how these were crossed by gender tensions, norms and prescriptions that attributed certain meanings and moral values to the consumption of alcohol and its effects on workers and the working-class family. In order to achieve its objectives, the article uses a documentary corpus composed mainly of trade union press and documentation, but cross-referenced by magazines and newspapers of the time, government documents and workers' memoirs. |
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