In first person. A cooperative in the cotton crisis of the '60s

Abstract

This article seeks to describe and analyze the actions and reactions that were generated on the discourse and practice of cooperative social actor, before the cotton crisis in the 60s in Argentina. Is studied the case of the Agricultural and Cotton Cooperative Limited from La Banda (CAALBA) in province of Santiago del Estero. This Association, with small farmers, was inside a network of relationships with institutions of civil society and state, which -in Gramscian`s theory- were in the context of the hegemonic social disputes of diferent development projects. CAALBA is shown in throughout the work inside these new reality, for example at the Corporation of the Rio Dulce