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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ISHiR/CONICET
2022
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| Acceso en línea: | https://web3.rosario-conicet.gov.ar/ojs/index.php/revistaISHIR/article/view/1715 |
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| Sumario: | 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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