“There will be more sorrow and oblivion” The economic changes in the northeast of Chubut (Argentina) in 1990

Abstract

We seek to study the process of profound changes in social economic structurethat occur in the northeast of Chubut in the nineties. In this area there are three cities, Trelew, Puerto Madryn, Rawson, who were part of the model of development zones by promoting industrial enterprises were set up south of latitude 42.We believe that this structure underwent major changes since the imposition of the hegemony of finance capital, which left the state planning model, typical of the phase domain of industrial capital, to move to another plan, now since interest financial capital. This produced a new social context and power relations that led to a strong process of pauperization of the working population in the region, resulted in: massive loss of jobs, factory closures, increased exploitation of workers employed and the development aggravation of poverty and consolidated.