Resumen

MARGARUCCI, Ivanna. From Christmas to carnival. Chronicles of the social defense law's failure in Bolivia, 1931-1932. Rev. Fuent. Cong. [online]. 2018, vol.12, n.57, pp. 32-45. ISSN 1997-4485.

Abstract In order to address the history of the Bolivian labour movement in a complex way, research must consider the positions adopted by governments and dominant classes regarding the organization and struggle process developed by subaltern social sectors. For studying the decades of 1920 and 1930, that exercise involves first to focus on the reasons and the forms of government repression of the demanding sectors, such as urban workers and indigenous people. This is a crucial fact that explains the decline and the transition that occurred to the popular movement through the Chaco War and the peculiarities of the postwar period. With that purpose, in this article we aim to reconstruct the path followed by the social defense bill, in the particular timing during Daniel Salamanca's administration, between December 1931 and February 1932. Additionally, we will try to give an account of its social impact, distinguishing the support and the opposition from different groups. The hypothesis: we state that the causes for the failure are more related to the particular economic and politic dynamics of crises and conflict of the prewar, than with the intervention of workers and students against the bill.

Palabras llave : Bolivia - Labour movement; Social defense law; Daniel Salamanca; Social impact.