Latin American Studies ETDs

Publication Date

7-9-1969

Abstract

The political alienation of peronism has been a major obstacle to social integration in Argentina since 1955. This paper traces the historical causes of that conflict and offers a comparison of the growth of peronism with the political development of labor in three modern integrated societies, England, Russia, and the United States. The politicization of labor is viewed as one universal consequence of the industrialization process. In each of these societies the political drive of labor was met with both public and private opposition, making it for a time an alienated political interest group in the society. Each country witnessed a period of mal-integration broadly similar to Argentina's current stage of political development. The thesis developed here is that war and the imperatives of national defense mollified the political struggle of industrial labor in England, Russia, and the United States by making social integration a necessary condition of national survival. The contingencies of war and national defense initiated a trend toward state wide economic planning and collectivism that eventually led to labor's integration and full participation in the body politic or each nation. A relationship is therefore advanced between mal-integration in Argentina end that nation's historic non-involvment in international conflict. The entire analysis is conducted within the general theoretical framework of systems analysis, more specifically as it has been applied to political science by David Easton.

Language

English

Document Type

Thesis

Degree Name

Latin American Studies

Level of Degree

Masters

Department Name

Latin American Studies

First Committee Member (Chair)

Illegible

Second Committee Member

Sanford Cohen

Third Committee Member

Ronald Howard Dolkart

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