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RAPALO, María Ester. Los patrones ante la legislación laboral durante el primer gobierno de Yrigoyen: La Asociación del Trabajo frente a la ley 10.505 sobre salarios mínimos en el trabajo a domicilio. Cuad. Sur, Hist. [online]. 2003, n.32, pp. 49-78. ISSN 1668-7604.

This paper studies the resistance that the active employers organization Asociación del Trabajo put up to the Minimum Wages Act for home work submitted by the socialism and enacted in 1918. The goal of the project was to set official rates for minimum wages and to rule the working conditions of a type of work that involved especially thousands of women and children without any legal protection. Its scope had already been reduced by the parliamentary resistance (only Capital Federal appproved it), and it was also hindered by the AT during the years after its enactment. The analysis of the hindrances created by the AT to this labor act is clarifying for many reasons: the most important employers of home work, clothing industry, from big shops to small shops and tailors, were grouped there. Being members allowed them to design shared strategies and to have the support of the large corporations of the owners' class such as the Stock Exchange and the Rural Society. This made easier the implementation of certain activities such as the boycott to the salaries commissions, the pressure exerted on representatives an judges, the press campaigns, the attempts to replace the inspectors and other direct pressures over the public powers, influencing, together with the limited will of the political powers, the effectiveness of the Act.

Palabras llave : Domicile work; Labor law; Employer's organization; Resistances.