"The Rise of the Textile District of Buenos Aires and the limits of Import Substitution Industrialization in the first half of 20th Century"

BELINI, CLAUDIO

Revista de Historia Industrial. Economía y Empresa

Universitat de Barcelona

Lugar: Barcelona; Año: 2017 vol. XVII p. 159 - 190

1132-7200

This paper analyzes the origins of the textile district of Buenos Aires in the first half of the 20th Century. In this period, the cotton industry led the import substituting industrialization. This industrial development accentuated the characteristics that the industrial location had assumed in the Argentina; especially the spatial concentration in the city of Buenos Aires and the outskirts. It is supported that this case adapts it partially to the industrial district model. Although the industrial concentration in Buenos Aires, allowed to the argentine textile industry to benefit of the external economies defined by Marshall, the industrial growth assumed typical forms of the ?late, late industrialization? analyzed by Albert Hirschman. On this subject, the article analyzes the factors that shaped the rising of the industrial district and limits of the Import Substitution Industrialization model imposed on the industrial agglomeration advantages.