Demographic and labour characteristics in the rural world of northeast Santa Cruz during the second workers' strike of 1921/Características poblacionales y laborales en el ámbito rural del noreste de Santa Cruz durante la segunda huelga obrera de 1921

In 1921, a rural workers' strike occurred in the territory of Santa Cruz (Patagonia, Argentina), which was repressed by the Army, resulting in the murder of many strikers. In this work, given the scarcity of background information and to know the population and labour characteristics of livestock farms where these events occurred, we built a database of the people present at the time of the strike. For this, we use two unpublished documents produced by state agents after the military repression. In this way, we analyse the presence of national and foreign inhabitants, characteristics of rural labour, permanent residents, and temporary residents, for example. This allows us to consider with greater precision the labour organization of the rural world at a time when the workers' strike took place in the northeast of Santa Cruz; as well as the biases resulting from the types of documents used.