La Colonización del Chaco austral argentino y el tránsito hacia el ciclo algodonero. Afluencia humana y problemas de coexistencia en una sociedad en formación

Abstract

During the twenty and thirty decades of the last century, a vertiginous process took place in the Territory of Chaco that radically modified the economic and social appearance of this Argentine space. This process, which was known as the “cotton cycle”, in distinction to the immediately previous model of operation denominated “forest cycle” or “cycle of tannin”, was characterized by the incorporation of important inmigratory contingents destined to the colonization and the manual tasks that the culture and harvests of the textile demanded. The social problems derived from this human affluence; the conflicts of coexistence in the rural scopes; and the answers of the State and the society about the question, are analysed in the present work.