Industrial union, educational institutions of technology and technical journals (Buenos Aires, 1860-1910)

Abstract

This work on the social history of technology sets out to show, in the case of Argentina to show, for the Argentinean case, that the technological innovations that modified the babitat of Buenos Aires towards the end of the 19th century were century, are related to social and cultural factors that imply an ideology of cultural factors that imply an ideology of modernisation’, which, in turn, explains the dynamics of the search for and implementation of these innovations, and which and realisation of these innovations, explaining which ones were favoured and why, and why. After the national reorganisation of 1860, which consolidated the definitive political-institutional structure of the the definitive political-institutional structure of the country, the city of Buenos Aires began to of Buenos Aires began to evolve towards its new role as a model modern city, which modern city, which will be taken as an example during the modernisation process (1860). during the modernisation process (1880-1916). This This evolution had three main axes: the new social structure, the reform of the reform of the educational system and the modification of the babitat.