An army of seamstresses: uniforms, businessmen and female labor: Buenos Aires, 1848-1870
In this article I address some experiences around female sewing work involved in the making of military uniforms in Buenos Aires between the end of the Rosas government and the Paraguayan War. I seek, on the one hand, to reconstruct the different spaces in which this activity was carried out. On the...
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I15-R239-article-17152022-12-20T13:43:44Z An army of seamstresses: uniforms, businessmen and female labor: Buenos Aires, 1848-1870 Un ejército de costureras: uniformes, empresarios y trabajo femenino: Buenos Aires, 1848-1870 Mitidieri, Gabriela seamstresses military uniforms free and forced labor city of Buenos Aires 19th century costureras uniformes militares trabajo libre y no libre ciudad de Buenos Aires siglo XIX In this article I address some experiences around female sewing work involved in the making of military uniforms in Buenos Aires between the end of the Rosas government and the Paraguayan War. I seek, on the one hand, to reconstruct the different spaces in which this activity was carried out. On the second hand, we try to analyze the work arrangements, not always free or remunerated. On the third hand, we aim to highlight the changes in the ways of supplying the army linked to changes in government. I also wonder about the trajectories of businessmen who accumulated profits through the importation of textiles and through the exploitation of female labor in the sewing of military clothing. As these being merchants who would later diversify their businesses in livestock activity in the Buenos Aires rural area, it is required to show their previous connections with the large-scale hiring of seamstresses who worked sewing by piece from their homes. En el presente artículo abordo experiencias de trabajo femenino de costura involucradas en la confección de uniformes militares en Buenos Aires entre fines del período rosista y la Guerra del Paraguay. Busco reconstruir los diferentes espacios en los que se realizó dicha actividad, analizar los arreglos laborales -no siempre libres ni remunerados- y subrayar las mutaciones en las formas de abastecimiento para el ejército ligadas a los cambios de gobierno. Me interrogo también por las trayectorias de empresarios que acumularon ganancias a través de la importación de textiles y por medio de la explotación del trabajo femenino en la costura de vestuario militar. Al tratarse de comerciantes que luego diversificarían sus negocios en la actividad ganadera en la campaña bonaerense, intento mostrar sus conexiones previas con la contratación en gran escala de costureras que trabajaron a destajo, cosiendo por pieza desde sus sitios de morada. ISHiR/CONICET 2022-12-20 info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion Artículo evaluado por pares application/pdf text/html application/zip https://web3.rosario-conicet.gov.ar/ojs/index.php/revistaISHIR/article/view/1715 10.35305/eishir.v12i34.1715 Estudios del ISHiR; Vol. 12 Núm. 34 (2022): Estudios del ISHIR Estudios del ISHiR; Vol. 12 No. 34 (2022): Estudios del ISHIR 2250-4397 spa https://web3.rosario-conicet.gov.ar/ojs/index.php/revistaISHIR/article/view/1715/2589 https://web3.rosario-conicet.gov.ar/ojs/index.php/revistaISHIR/article/view/1715/2590 https://web3.rosario-conicet.gov.ar/ojs/index.php/revistaISHIR/article/view/1715/2591 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0 |
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In this article I address some experiences around female sewing work involved in the making of military uniforms in Buenos Aires between the end of the Rosas government and the Paraguayan War. I seek, on the one hand, to reconstruct the different spaces in which this activity was carried out. On the second hand, we try to analyze the work arrangements, not always free or remunerated. On the third hand, we aim to highlight the changes in the ways of supplying the army linked to changes in government. I also wonder about the trajectories of businessmen who accumulated profits through the importation of textiles and through the exploitation of female labor in the sewing of military clothing. As these being merchants who would later diversify their businesses in livestock activity in the Buenos Aires rural area, it is required to show their previous connections with the large-scale hiring of seamstresses who worked sewing by piece from their homes. |
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