Abstract

BERGESIO, Liliana  and  CASTILLO, Fernando. (Productive models in Altos Hornos Zapla: from state expansion to private contraction). Cuad. Fac. Humanid. Cienc. Soc., Univ. Nac. Jujuy [online]. 2012, n.41, pp.11-33. ISSN 1668-8104.

            This paper is developed within the framework of history of companies and industry, and it is carried out in the context of the following research program: "Railway dismantling and siderurgic privatization: socioeconomic consequences, social representations and political identities. The cases of General Belgrano Railway and Altos Hornos Zapla in the 1990 decade in Jujuy (Argentina)".             This paper, continuing these research lines, aims to determine major characteristics of AHZ historical development, paying attention to both qualitative and quantitative productive abilities and focusing on consequences of privatization in local employment. For that goal, the next sources were used: official ones (such as technical reports and Dirección General de Fabricaciones Militares board´s registers), magazines and newspapers.             Gained results suggest the following premises: AHZ developed two specific production models; the first one -from 1940 decade to the eighties­- entailed a steelmaking scheme, based on an expansive and integrative policy. The second one -since the 1980 decade up to early nineties- supposed the transformation of the initial diagram because of the contraction of the expansive trend and its further privatization. The denationalization of AHZ engendered not only its productive system as well as its impact in provincial employment and economy.

Keywords : Altos Hornos Zapla; Jujuy; Privatization; Siderurgy; State.

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