Agonía y cierre de un ícono de la Argentina agroexportadora: el caso del Mercado Central de Frutos (1946-1976)

Abstract

The economic history has marked the argentine structural change that occurred in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. This change involved a major transformation and further expansion in the production of so-called "fruit of the land." It‟s increased the demand for transport and storage of agricultural goods. In that context it was planned and built the Central Fruit Market. This building, at the time the world's largest of its kind, received and stored much of the agricultural production of the country in the period. However, by mid-century, commercial movement began to decline. In the 1960s the Central Fruit Market ceased its activities. And in the mid-1970s it was liquidated. This paper presents a case study of the crisis and decline of the company is made. We analyze the company management, in relationship with the evolution of wages, wool production and prices.

Keywords

• central fruit market
• economic history
• prices
• wages