In parts of Europe had little work, there was great population growth, there was religious persecution, agrarian crisis and the people most affected decided to improve their quality of life by migrating to other countries that offered some possibilities economic growth, as was the case in Argentina.
looking to grow economically and socially, they thought they could buy a plot of land and start again in this great country, that favored by various promotions.
Between 1880-1890 the country reached 1,000,000 Europeans of whom 85% were established, but that body of man is not enough to meet external demands.
Between 1880-1914 reached nearly 6,000,000 new residents who settled permanently around 4,000,000.
Argentina increased from 1,800,000 inhabitants. in 1869, where 12% were immigrants to 7,800,000 in 1914, 30% foreign.
The national state spent 5,000,000 pesos gold to pay the passages 130,000.
The highest percentage of immigrants was of English and Italian, as were those best adapted to the conditions of this country. Actually wanted to attract the attention of people more qualified and educated professionals, so that set up offices in countries like England, Germany and France, to promote migration of such people.
Most immigrants settled in the Pampas (Buenos Aires, Santa Fe, Entre Rios and Cordoba), but cultivated land were practically the Santa Fe, because the land in Buenos Aires was in the hands of large landowners promoters of the great campaign against the Indians years ago.
Although many of them amounted to "become American" (tenants, landlords, tenants, merchants), especially those who arrived before 1880, because they came with some capital to start labor, most of They swelled the masses of rural and urban laborers, ie, could not become homeowners.
end of 1890 to 90% of foreigners living in the Pampa area cities and the urban population exceeded the rural for the first time.
Seeing that the land acquisition possibilities were almost nil, they decided to settle in cities that were growing at an unusual pace. In Buenos Aires Rosario and ports were built, elevators, public lighting networks, railways, large public buildings, drains, etc.
How are you cities were not prepared for such growth, the newly arrived families crammed into houses in the south of Buenos Aires, which once belonged to wealthy families, who had abandoned at the time of Yellow fever, moving to live in the Barrio Norte. These houses were called: tenements.
In 1890 a quarter of the population lived in group homes.
Social Classes
a) The Buenos Aires elite formed by the wealthiest families, owners of all major areas of the province, and grew economically because the export of agricultural products were grown in their own rooms and owners of all political power, in charge of running the country. (there were about 400 wealthy families)
b) Professionals, clerks, teachers, traders, middle, carriers, whose progress went hand in hand the success that could be the export model, they formed the middle class.
c) A great mass of workers with a trade such as milliners, dressmakers, stomping, tailors, bakers, watchmakers, cabinetmakers, carpenters, masons. There were also the port stevedores and porters. The workers of the slaughterhouses and railways belonged to the working class.
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