The "Winners" of a Sector in Crisis: The Economic Performance of Large Steel Companies, Argentina (1976-1981)

The administration of Martínez de Hoz at the head of the National Ministry of Economy, during the period 1976-1981, deployed a real strategy of aggression towards the industrial fabric as a whole. However, far from having a linear and coherent character, this strategy was framed under a highly contr...

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Autor principal: Iramain, Lucas
Formato: Artículo publishedVersion
Lenguaje:Español
Publicado: Centro de Estudios de Historia Económica Argentina y Latinoamericana (CEHEAL) 2013
Materias:
Accumulation Privileged Spaces
Privilege Quasi-Rents
Steel Industry
Ámbitos Privilegiados de Acumulación
Cuasirentas de Privilegio
Sector Siderúrgico
Acceso en línea:https://ojs.economicas.uba.ar/H-ind/article/view/538
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spelling I28-R145-538_oai2025-02-11 Iramain, Lucas 2013-10-11 The administration of Martínez de Hoz at the head of the National Ministry of Economy, during the period 1976-1981, deployed a real strategy of aggression towards the industrial fabric as a whole. However, far from having a linear and coherent character, this strategy was framed under a highly contradictory and tension-ridden liberal-corporate management. As a result, its policies have had heterogeneous effects on the different branches and industrial players affected by its measures. The steel sector was not exempt from these heterogeneities; on the contrary, despite being affected by a strong external and internal crisis, it also exhibited the consolidation of a relatively limited nucleus of large private firms that captured a series of privileged quasi-rents. In this sense, this paper aims to analyze the economic performance of the main steel companies operating in Argentina during this period, in order to provide empirical evidence to corroborate the existence, in the steel sector, of what Castellani (2006) has called privileged spheres of capital accumulation. La gestión de Martínez de Hoz al frente del Ministerio de Economía de la Nación, durante el período 1976-1981, desplegó una verdadera estrategia de agresión hacia el tejido industrial en su conjunto. Sin embargo, lejos de tener un carácter lineal y coherente, dicha estrategia se enmarcó bajo una gestión liberal-corporativa sumamente contradictoria y plagada de tensiones. De ahí que sus políticas hayan conllevado efectos heterogéneos sobre las distintas ramas y actores fabriles alcanzados por sus medidas. El sector siderúrgico no estuvo exento de esas heterogeneidades, sino que, por el contrario, pese a estar afectado por una fuerte crisis tanto externa como interna, también exhibió la consolidación de un núcleo relativamente acotado de grandes firmas privadas captadoras de una serie de cuasi- rentas de privilegio. En ese sentido, el presente trabajo se propone analizar el desempeño económico de las principales empresas siderúrgicas que actuaban en la Argentina durante el mencionado lapso, a fin de aportar evidencia empírica que corrobore la existencia, en torno al sector siderúrgico, de lo que Castellani (2006) ha denominado como ámbitos privilegiados de acumulación de capital. application/pdf https://ojs.economicas.uba.ar/H-ind/article/view/538 spa Centro de Estudios de Historia Económica Argentina y Latinoamericana (CEHEAL) https://ojs.economicas.uba.ar/H-ind/article/view/538/997 H-industria. Journal of the History of Industry and Development in Latin America; No. 12 (7): Primer semestre de 2013; 1 H-industria. Revista de historia de la industria y el desarrollo en América Latina; Núm. 12 (7): Primer semestre de 2013; 1 H-industria. Revista sobre a história da indústria e desenvolvimento na América Latina; n. 12 (7): Primer semestre de 2013; 1 1851-703X Accumulation Privileged Spaces Privilege Quasi-Rents Steel Industry Ámbitos Privilegiados de Acumulación Cuasirentas de Privilegio Sector Siderúrgico The "Winners" of a Sector in Crisis: The Economic Performance of Large Steel Companies, Argentina (1976-1981) Los “ganadores” de un sector en crisis: El desempeño económico de las grandes empresas siderúrgicas, Argentina (1976-1981) 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=538_oai
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topic Accumulation Privileged Spaces
Privilege Quasi-Rents
Steel Industry
Ámbitos Privilegiados de Acumulación
Cuasirentas de Privilegio
Sector Siderúrgico
spellingShingle Accumulation Privileged Spaces
Privilege Quasi-Rents
Steel Industry
Ámbitos Privilegiados de Acumulación
Cuasirentas de Privilegio
Sector Siderúrgico
Iramain, Lucas
The "Winners" of a Sector in Crisis: The Economic Performance of Large Steel Companies, Argentina (1976-1981)
topic_facet Accumulation Privileged Spaces
Privilege Quasi-Rents
Steel Industry
Ámbitos Privilegiados de Acumulación
Cuasirentas de Privilegio
Sector Siderúrgico
description The administration of Martínez de Hoz at the head of the National Ministry of Economy, during the period 1976-1981, deployed a real strategy of aggression towards the industrial fabric as a whole. However, far from having a linear and coherent character, this strategy was framed under a highly contradictory and tension-ridden liberal-corporate management. As a result, its policies have had heterogeneous effects on the different branches and industrial players affected by its measures. The steel sector was not exempt from these heterogeneities; on the contrary, despite being affected by a strong external and internal crisis, it also exhibited the consolidation of a relatively limited nucleus of large private firms that captured a series of privileged quasi-rents. In this sense, this paper aims to analyze the economic performance of the main steel companies operating in Argentina during this period, in order to provide empirical evidence to corroborate the existence, in the steel sector, of what Castellani (2006) has called privileged spheres of capital accumulation.
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title_full The "Winners" of a Sector in Crisis: The Economic Performance of Large Steel Companies, Argentina (1976-1981)
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