Resumen

FITZSIMONS, Alejandro  y  GUEVARA, Sebastián. The Argentine automotive industry and its sources of profit: A long-term analysis (1960-2013). Am. Lat. Hist. Econ [online]. 2018, vol.25, n.1, pp.239-274. ISSN 2007-3496.  https://doi.org/10.18232/alhe.v25i1.859.

This paper studies the historical development of the automotive industry in Argentina from 1960 to 2013. The main argument is that multinational companies operating locally had a specific or distinctive way of capital valorization, vis à vis other national cases. This specificity was essentially the appropriation of agrarian ground rent by the automotive industrial capital through two main mechanisms, namely, the cheapening of the labor force and high domestic or regional prices. In this way, the automotive multinational companies compensated for the small production scale, out-dated technology, and low labor productivity in its factories in Argentina. These arguments are supported by the international comparison of wages, carried out through original statistical series, and the analysis of other evidences retrieved from specialized literature.

Palabras llave : automotive industry; international division of labor; capital accumulation in Argentina; industrial wages.