Biographical overview of leaders who challenged the world of work in Córdoba, 1900–1950

“I have always found prosopographic work on the individuals we study to be extremely useful for gaining insight beyond the political or social logic on which we focus our research, because it allows us to understand subjectivities that undoubtedly enrich the historical context we are working with. That is why, while conducting our studies, we have decided to devote ourselves to collecting data on the outstanding individuals in each of our investigations in order to get closer to the everyday world of those who made up each group and had an impact in one way or another on the world of work. For the time being, and as this is our first systematization, we have decided to call it a Biographical Review, clarifying that the objective is to continue with it and turn our work into a Dictionary of leaders who were busy and concerned—albeit for different reasons—with workers," Vidal points out.

This project stems from studies focused on specific associations and political forces. In this sense, it does not cover the entire universe of leaders who intervened on behalf of the working classes, whether as legislators, members of associations, politicians, union activists, etc., Nor is it a list of figures structured according to criteria of public relevance, but rather a group of individuals who appeared in the specific research of the group's members and whose biographical data was sought out and systematized with the intention of contributing to the knowledge of unique actors through their participation in certain organizations. This objective does not prevent the biographies of several individuals who did not come from the world of work, but rather were clearly members of the local elite; in any case, all the protagonists are connected in one way or another to that world.