Production, Sales and Consumption: Rethinking the Role of Gender in Department Stores in Buenos Aires, 1883-1930
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The profits of Harrods and Gath & Chaves, the most important stores in Buenos Aires at the beginning of the twentieth century relied on large stores with many departments. However, the tradition of ready-made clothing rather buying cloth, and the use of stores as centers of sociability, lowered expected sales and, eventually, the salaries of company factory workers, mostly women.
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Guy, D. (2018). Production, Sales and Consumption: Rethinking the Role of Gender in Department Stores in Buenos Aires, 1883-1930. Descentrada, 2(1), e037. Retrieved from https://www.descentrada.fahce.unlp.edu.ar/article/view/DESe037
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Quesada, Josué (1999 [1919]). La vendedora de Harrod’s y otros relatos. Bernal: Universidad Nacional de Quilmes.
Rocchi, Fernando (1998). Consumir es un placer: La industria y la expansión de la demanda en Buenos Aires a la vuelta del siglo pasado. Desarrollo económico, 37(148), 533-558.
Simmel, George (1971). Fashion (pp. 308-309). On Individuality and social forms. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Simmel, George (1971). On Individuality and social forms. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Tow, Martin (1933). Retired business man: an episodic biography. S/d.
Trentmann, Frank and Otero-Cleves, Ana María (2017). Paths, detours and connections: Consumption and Its contribution to Latin American history. Historia crítica 65, 13-28.
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