Organización cooperativa agraria y política gubernamental en la Argentina peronista 1946-1955

Abstract

The new political and socioeconomic scenario stated by the nationalist, popular, planer and benefactor State, leaded by Juan Domingo Perón in Argentina in the 1946-1955 decade, is propitious to make an approach —from a historic perspective and through a case study— to the vision that actors related to the rural cooperativism have concerning to the government policies adopted in relation with the land. The analysis of the speech, the legislation and the decisions taken constitute the empiric basis of this study that try to characterize the collaboration, confrontation and exclusion relations between the entities that grouped agrarian cooperatives, such as the ACA (Asociación de Cooperativas Argentina), and the governmental institutions. This study will include both the period of time in which the income redistribution substantially benefits to the small and medium national industry, and the phase of change in the economical direction, that, since 1950, privileges from the peronist State “the return to the land”. The purpose is to discover and interpret through this specific study, continuities and changes, myths and realities that are preserved in the collective memory from that prosperous and antithetical Argentina.