Resumen

VENEGAS VALDEBENITO, Hernán A.  y  MORALES BARRIENTOS, Diego A.. Work Management Alternatives in a Monopolistic Industry: The Case of the Cement Company El Melón, Chile (1930-1950). Am. Lat. Hist. Econ [online]. 2019, vol.26, n.1, e921. ISSN 2007-3496.  https://doi.org/10.18232/alhe.921.

The Sociedad Fábrica de Cemento de El Melón, the main company in the production of cement during the first half of the 20th century, it started in the small city of La Calera and directly intervene in the urban space. The company’s objective was to strengthen the relationships among workers and managers, as well as the workers’ families. With its successful economic expansion, the company designed, built, and maintained two working towns where employees were able to find different ways of social assistance, which were managed by the Welfare Service. These two towns introduced some aspects from the European Natural Hygiene, and it represented in Chile an urban paternalism, which were used to intervene in the working families’ domestic space.

Palabras llave : cement company; urban paternalism; social welfare.