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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 11 December 2015
Latin American social historians often decry the lack of statistical material available in the region. In some countries national censuses were not taken in the nineteenth century, and municipal information for the period is hard to locate. The lack of data makes it difficult to investigate such questions as family size, mortality, employment, and residency among those groups which were least likely to provide written records of their lives. As a result, many studies are limited by the availability of data. Recently, however, Latin American social historians have begun to propose additional questions, plumbing the potential of those sources which are available.
1 See Pineo, Ronn F., “Misery and Death in the Pearl of the Pacific: Health Care in Guayaquil, Ecuador, 1870–1925,” in Hispanic American Historical Review 70:4 (November 1990) 609–637,Google Scholar who cites hospital, police, and municipal records. Also, French, William E., “Prostitutes and Guardian Angels: Women, Work, and the Family in Porfirian Mexico,” in Hispanic American Historical Review 72:4 (November 1992) 529–553,Google Scholar uses municipal archives from Hidalgo del Parral.
2 See Armus, Diego, ed. Mundo urbano y cultura popular, (Buenos Aires: Editorial Sudamericana, 1990),Google Scholar for articles on working women, employing statistics from the national census, on housing and the Catholic church, using the Revista de Economía Argentina, and an article on housing in Rosario, which used the Tercer Censo Municipal de Rosario de Santa Fe, 1910; also, Johnson, Lyman L., ed. The Problem of Order in Changing Societies. Essays on Crime and Policing in Argentina and Uruguay, 1750–1940 (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1990)Google Scholar for articles on crime, disorder, prostitution, and police response. The essayists cite information from such sources as the Archivo Histórico de la Municipalidad de Buenos Aires, and the “Indice del Archivo del Departamento General de la Policía, desde el año de 1812,” by Rafael Trelles. See also Ruggiero, Kristen, “Honor, Maternity, and the Disciplining of Women: Infanticide in Late Nineteenth Century Buenos Aires,” in Hispanic American Historical Review 72:3 (August 1992) 353–373,Google Scholar who uses records from criminal court cases from the Tribunal Criminal in the National Archives in Buenos Aires.
3 Argentina, República, de Estadística, Dirección General. Censo de la República Argentina (Buenos Aires, 1895).Google Scholar The manuscript census is available in the National Archives (Archivo General de la Nación) in Buenos Aires. Microfilm copies are located at Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey, and the Genealogical Library, The Church of the Latter Day Saints, Salt Lake City, Utah.
4 Scobie, James, Buenos Aires: From Plaza to Suburb (New York: Oxford University Press, 1974).Google Scholar
5 Ibid., p. 201.
6 For information on the 1907 rent strike, see Spalding, Hobart, “Cuando los inquilinos hacen huelga,” Revista Extra, 14 (September, 1966);Google Scholar Suriano, Juan, La huelga de inquilinos de 1907 (Buenos Aires: Centro Editor de América Latina, 1983);Google Scholar and Baer, James A., “Tenant Mobilization and the 1907 Rent Strike in Buenos Aires,” The Americas, 49:3 (January, 1993) 343–368.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
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8 Law 11,157 (Rent Law) was passed by the middle class Radical Party in 1921; Juan Peron built low-cost public housing as a part of his policies to improve the lives of working-class Argentines; military regimes in the 1970s sponsored public housing projects, often in the provinces, to alleviate housing shortages in areas where guerrilla activity was feared.