Argentina Labour Rights background between the universal and the particular

ANDRÉS STAGNARO

Frankfurt

Workshop; Law and Diversity European and Latin American experiences from a legal historical perspective; 2021

Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory

Argentine Labour Law had its origins in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and its development was always linked to a broader idea that contained it, broadly defined as "Social Law". As a result of the process that began with the Industrial Revolution, Labour Law or Labour Law emerged as an opposition to the doctrine of private law that predominated in the relations between subjects, but without falling into the antinomy of being ascribed to public law. Its development can be followed in two ways, firstly in legislative terms by tracing the laws that sought to protect the worker against adverse conditions, providing them with a certain framework of stability that protecte them in the face of old age, accidents, unemployment, etc. Secondly, labour law meant a change in doctrinal terms, giving rise to interpretations of the norm that no longer conformed to the idea of a society of equals.