Abstract

LENIS, María. The Centro Azucarero Argentino facing the first crisis of overproduction: Tensions and conflicts, 1895-1897. Rev. hist. am. argent. [online]. 2011, vol.46, n.2, pp.00-00. ISSN 2314-1549 .

This paper examines the corporate strategies deploied by the Sugar Argentine Center (entrepreneur corporation founded to the heat of the parliamentary debates concerning the free trade and the protectionism of 1894). Early in the meetings of the managerial commission of the Sugar Center the possible solutions were begun to study before the crisis that was insinuated. Hereby between the year 1895 and 1897 the association tested different strategies to neutralize the decrease of the price of the sweet. During 1895, the corporation orientated his actions to achieve agreements of sale among the manufacturers. Since there were not obtained the results expected from these negotiations, at the end of this year the Center chose to present before the Congress of the Nation a project of law that was facilitating the placement of the surplus of sugar on the world market across the establishment of export bounties. Parallel to the parliamentary management, it stimulated the formation of a Joint-stock company that was buying and exporting the surplus of production. Finally, in 1897 it called for a Sugar Congress presided by the ex-president Carlos Pellegrini with the intention of designing a project that was containing the demands of all the manufacturers.

Keywords : Sugar industry; Overproduction; Entrepreneur corporation; Regulation.