Muchas de las estadísticas que Mauricio Rojas utiliza en su libro son de Cortés Conde

Me llamó mucho la atención las cifras que da sobre producción industrial. El salto no sólo fue agrícola ganadero. La realidad no tiene nada que ver con la versión de los estatistas sobre esos años:

Industry advanced rapidly during this growth period. The value industrial output, for example, multiplied 2.4 times between 1900 and 1913. A manifold industrial sector in 1914 comprised more than 48,000 workplaces, and industrial employment rose from 396,000 workers to 633,000 between 1900–04 and 1910–14. Adding to this the construction sector, we obtain growth for the same period from 486,000 workers to 851,000, corresponding respectively to 20.6 and 27.7 of the national workforce. These industries – often a mixture of traditional craft, manufacturing and semi-mechanised workshops, but also including big factories and modern industrial facilities producing for export – had already gained control of a large share of the national market for basic consumer articles – 91 per cent of foodstuffs, 88 per cent of textile products and 80 per cent of building materials, for example – but had also made considerable inroads into parts of the capital goods market: one-third of metal engineering products marketed in Argentina were produced there, and by 1910 the country’s industry was capable of meeting one-third of national demand for agricultural machinery and implements.

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