Industrialization and Import Substitution in Times of the First Batlle's Government and the First World War (Uruguay, 1911-1930)
Until the 1970s, it was a commonplace in economics and historiography to consider that the industrial experience in Uruguay, as in Latin America as a whole, was a post-1929 crisis phenomenon. Since the 1980s, numerous studies have demonstrated the existence and importance of "early industry&quo...
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Until the 1970s, it was a commonplace in economics and historiography to consider that the industrial experience in Uruguay, as in Latin America as a whole, was a post-1929 crisis phenomenon. Since the 1980s, numerous studies have demonstrated the existence and importance of "early industry", whose origins date back to the last quarter of the 19th century. This article studies the development of Uruguayan manufacturing industry during the two decades between the beginning of the second presidency of José Batlle y Ordóñez, leader of a political movement that made industrialization one of its main objectives, and the outbreak of the international economic crisis, after passing through the local effects of World War I (WWI) and the postwar crisis. On the one hand, the importance of industrial growth in these years is assessed, evaluating the impact of the war and, especially, of the policies deployed by Batllismo, and on the other hand, the role of import substitution is discussed. Among the main conclusions of the paper it is suggested that, although this was a period of industrial growth, it did not alter the essentially agro-exporting character of the economy; import substitution would have played a minor role in the industrial growth of the period, suggesting that it should be explained by the behavior of the export sector and the domestic market; the international war had an ambivalent effect on the manufacturing industry and the industrialist policies of Batllismo had severe limitations, both in their formulation and in their impact on the economic process.Until the 1970s, it was a commonplace in economics and historiography to consider that the industrial experience in Uruguay, as in Latin America as a whole, was a post-1929 crisis phenomenon. Since the 1980s, numerous studies have demonstrated the existence and importance of "early industry", whose origins date back to the last quarter of the 19th century. This article studies the development of Uruguayan manufacturing industry during the two decades between the beginning of the second presidency of José Batlle y Ordóñez, leader of a political movement that made industrialization one of its main objectives, and the outbreak of the international economic crisis, after passing through the local effects of World War I (WWI) and the postwar crisis. On the one hand, the importance of industrial growth in these years is assessed, evaluating the impact of the war and, especially, of the policies deployed by Batllismo, and on the other hand, the role of import substitution is discussed. Among the main conclusions of the paper it is suggested that, although this was a period of industrial growth, it did not alter the essentially agro-exporting character of the economy; import substitution would have played a minor role in the industrial growth of the period, suggesting that it should be explained by the behavior of the export sector and the domestic market; the international war had an ambivalent effect on the manufacturing industry and the industrialist policies of Batllismo had severe limitations, both in their formulation and in their impact on the economic process. |
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I28-R145-484_oai2025-02-11 Tajam, Héctor Yafée, Jaime 2007-12-15 Until the 1970s, it was a commonplace in economics and historiography to consider that the industrial experience in Uruguay, as in Latin America as a whole, was a post-1929 crisis phenomenon. Since the 1980s, numerous studies have demonstrated the existence and importance of "early industry", whose origins date back to the last quarter of the 19th century. This article studies the development of Uruguayan manufacturing industry during the two decades between the beginning of the second presidency of José Batlle y Ordóñez, leader of a political movement that made industrialization one of its main objectives, and the outbreak of the international economic crisis, after passing through the local effects of World War I (WWI) and the postwar crisis. On the one hand, the importance of industrial growth in these years is assessed, evaluating the impact of the war and, especially, of the policies deployed by Batllismo, and on the other hand, the role of import substitution is discussed. Among the main conclusions of the paper it is suggested that, although this was a period of industrial growth, it did not alter the essentially agro-exporting character of the economy; import substitution would have played a minor role in the industrial growth of the period, suggesting that it should be explained by the behavior of the export sector and the domestic market; the international war had an ambivalent effect on the manufacturing industry and the industrialist policies of Batllismo had severe limitations, both in their formulation and in their impact on the economic process.Until the 1970s, it was a commonplace in economics and historiography to consider that the industrial experience in Uruguay, as in Latin America as a whole, was a post-1929 crisis phenomenon. Since the 1980s, numerous studies have demonstrated the existence and importance of "early industry", whose origins date back to the last quarter of the 19th century. This article studies the development of Uruguayan manufacturing industry during the two decades between the beginning of the second presidency of José Batlle y Ordóñez, leader of a political movement that made industrialization one of its main objectives, and the outbreak of the international economic crisis, after passing through the local effects of World War I (WWI) and the postwar crisis. On the one hand, the importance of industrial growth in these years is assessed, evaluating the impact of the war and, especially, of the policies deployed by Batllismo, and on the other hand, the role of import substitution is discussed. Among the main conclusions of the paper it is suggested that, although this was a period of industrial growth, it did not alter the essentially agro-exporting character of the economy; import substitution would have played a minor role in the industrial growth of the period, suggesting that it should be explained by the behavior of the export sector and the domestic market; the international war had an ambivalent effect on the manufacturing industry and the industrialist policies of Batllismo had severe limitations, both in their formulation and in their impact on the economic process. Hasta los años setenta fue un lugar común de la economía y la historiografía el considerar que la experiencia industrial en el Uruguay, lo mismo en el conjunto latinoamericano, era un fenómeno posterior a la crisis de 1929. Desde los ochenta, numerosos estudios han demostrado la existencia y la importancia de la “industria temprana”, cuyos orígenes se remontan al último cuarto del siglo XIX. En este artículo se estudia el desarrollo de la industria manufacturera uruguaya durante las dos décadas comprendidas entre el inicio de la segunda presidencia de José Batlle y Ordóñez, líder de un movimiento político que hizo de la industrialización uno de sus objetivos principales, y el estallido de la crisis económica internacional, tras pasar por los efectos locales de la Primera Guerra Mundial (PGM) y la crisis de posguerra. Por un lado, se dimensiona la importancia del crecimiento industrial en estos años, evaluando el impacto de la guerra y, especialmente, de las políticas desplegadas por el batllismo, y por otro, se discute el papel la sustitución de importaciones. Entre las principales conclusiones del trabajo se plantea que, si bien este fue un período de crecimiento industrial, el mismo no alcanzó a alterar el carácter esencialmente agroexportador de la economía; la sustitución de importaciones habría jugado un papel menor en el crecimiento industrial del período, sugiriéndose que el mismo debiera explicarse a partir del comportamiento del sector exportador y del mercado interno; la guerra internacional tuvo un efecto ambivalente sobre la industria manufacturera y las políticas industrialistas del batllismo tuvieron severas limitaciones, tanto en su formulación como en sus impactos sobre el proceso económico. application/pdf https://ojs.economicas.uba.ar/H-ind/article/view/484 spa Centro de Estudios de Historia Económica Argentina y Latinoamericana (CEHEAL) https://ojs.economicas.uba.ar/H-ind/article/view/484/898 H-industria. Journal of the History of Industry and Development in Latin America; No. 1 (1): Second Semester 2007; 1 H-industria. Revista de historia de la industria y el desarrollo en América Latina; Núm. 1 (1): Segundo semestre 2007; 1 H-industria. Revista sobre a história da indústria e desenvolvimento na América Latina; n. 1 (1): Segundo semestre 2007; 1 1851-703X Industrialization Agroexport Model Uruguay Industrialización Modelo agroexportador Uruguay Industrialization and Import Substitution in Times of the First Batlle's Government and the First World War (Uruguay, 1911-1930) Industrialización y sustitución de importaciones en tiempos del primer batllismo y la primera guerra mundial (Uruguay, 1911-1930) info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion https://repositoriouba.sisbi.uba.ar/gsdl/cgi-bin/library.cgi?a=d&c=hindus&d=484_oai |