Rethinking the history of the labor movement in a local key in the school classroom: Rosario from the late 19th century to the Saenz Peña Law

Abstract

In this article we propose an approach to the history of the Argentine workers' movement from a local perspective, particularly that of Rosario between its origins and 1912. The proposal seeks to problematize the importance of the approach to local history in secondary education, emphasizing the expansion of the space devoted to the study of the workers' movement, which is usually very scarce in school textbooks, as well as in the curriculum. On the other hand, we seek to rethink the time frames and categories that are usually used to think about history at the school level, which is usually done from the experience of Buenos Aires, projecting it on the rest of the country as equivalent to all regional realities. In this way, we propose to deepen the local dimension of this approach in order to strengthen the situated knowledge that brings students closer to their local realities, while they can understand the common matrices, but also the differences with the national narratives.