Making laws our own way, regulations in the light of the ILO: occupational risks in Argentina (1915-1936)

• Autor(a) principal: Maddalena, Pablo
• Data de Publicação: 2020
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: spa
• Título da fonte: Revista Mundos do Trabalho
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.ufsc.br/index.php/mundosdotrabalho/article/view/72742

This article aims to see the continuities and ruptures in the emergence of the ILO in the treatment of occupational risks in Argentina during the two decades after 1915, when Law No. 9,688 on occupational accidents and diseases was passed in the country. In this way, it will be possible to identify to what extent and how the recommendations of this international institution shaped the management of accidents at work in Argentina. For such analysis, the technical documents that emerged from the ILO will be investigated, in dialogue with the new body of legislation that was sanctioned in Argentina until 1936, when the regulation of Law No 9,688 was amended. The main hypothesis of the study is that the ILO promoted a set of preventive policies to reduce occupational risks, which directly, albeit with some lethargy, had an impact on partial regulations of the Argentinian law on accidents at work sanctioned in 1915. The juxtaposition of the international institution’s ideas with local legislation led to an extension of the standard coverage provided to workers before this, mainly in reference to the right to compensation when suffering from occupational diseases.