En los márgenes de la periferia. Mundo popular urbano y condiciones de vida en la ciudad de Jujuy (Argentina) en la década de 1930

Abstract

The impact on the society of the 1929 global crisis put the “social question” in a privileged place within the official government agenda in Argentina. The State put into operation, throughout the national territory, administrative structures to intervene in areas such as education, health and housing. The tendency to approach the social policy studies from perspectives of macro level or dealing exclusively with the metropolitan area of Buenos Aires, as the case of Argentina, finds a counterpoint in works, which focus attention on local areas, showing the diversity of scenarios and realities to consider. It should be noted the weaving of factors that affect the state actors’ willingness to socially deploy intervention policies and their ability to impact the layers of population to which they are addressed. For all this, we propose an approach to the living conditions of those popular sectors that inhabited the city of Jujuy in those critical years and that, for various reasons, remained outside the social integration mechanisms implemented.