Abstract
This article analyzes, considering the impact of First World War on Argentine economy, the consequences on the labor movement: unemployment, falling wages and deterioration of working conditions. This negative situation encouraged and radicalized the social conflict in an unprecedented way, especially in those unions related to exportation (maritime, railway, refrigeration industry workers). Thus, an exceptional event such as the war stripped in all its dimensions the forms of interpenetration and interconnection that the world economy had acquired and the ways in which this situation affected all workers.
Keywords:
World War I; unemployment; unions; strike