In this article, an approach that arises from the articulation between anthropological and historical research and the use of judicial sources is carried out, with the intention of exposing its heuristic potential for studies of companies or factory systems with working class towns. The analysis focused on two court cases related to a cement company, in the Olavarria party (Buenos Aires, Argentina) that occurred in the first half of the last century. The use of these unique sources allows us to examine and understand a broader sociocultural context, visualizing other aspects of the social relationships that are built in this manufacturing community. The results show us that, on the one hand, the supposed harmony of other works supported by opaque oral accounts, the different conflicts that appeared as part of the socio-labor relations of that ideal community and, on the other hand, that the conflicts themselves were made in that social order in which they developed.
Matta, J. P., & Lemiez, G. (2020). Manufacturing community and daily conflicts. An anthropological approach based on the analysis of judicial sources. Revista Chilena De Antropología, (41), 1–17. https://doi.org/10.5354/0719-1472.2020.57898
