Includes bibliographical references (p. 343-383) and index.

Introduction : Industrialization in an agrarian economy --The first factories : the dawn of Argentine industry, 1870s-1890s -- The market as an object of desire : the rise of domestic industrial consumption -- The victory of big business : industrial growth in the first decades of the twentieth century -- Only one Argentina: the creation of a national market for manufactured goods -- Tension and harmony in the industrial family : entrepreneurs and workers in argentina's factories -- Money and factories : the myths and realities of industrial financing -- The empire of pragmatism : politics and industry in the period 1880-1930.

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