Publications & Projects 

In 1890, Argentina was a wealthy nation on the brink of industrialization. Industrial Development in a Frontier Economy examines Argentina’s failure over the next forty years to develop an efficient manufacturing sector, even as countries in similar circumstances―Meiji Japan, Brazil, and Mexico―successfully modernized their economies. Yovanna Pineda conducts a pioneering microanalysis of 59 domestic corporations, spanning ten manufacturing sectors, to show that Argentina’s macroeconomic conditions led domestic manufacturers to concentrate on survival at the expense of innovation and growth. Her analysis reveals that the resulting risk-averse, monopolistic business practices, more than any collective action or governmental policy, forestalled the country’s industrialization.

Spectacular Bodies: Aesthetics of Labor and the Future of Work in Argentina examines the aesthetics of labor and farm technology in rural Argentina during the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. Drawing on fieldwork from Buenos Aires and Santa Fe rural regions, oral and life histories, material culture, archival material, and digital media, I demonstrate how factory owners and workers in rural regions shaped concepts of “freedom and work,” developing a community’s work values and demonstrating an optimistic vision of the future of work. This aesthetic seemingly diffuses and integrates with other broader social and labor movements in Argentina. Subjects’ memories of farm machinery, factory lifework, and the embodied experience of making, using, and repairing farm machinery reveal workers’ lived experiences and the cultural processes of developing identity, values, and history.

By Yovanna Pineda

Agustín E. Ferraro and Miguel A. Centeno, editors.

State and Nation Making in Latin America and Spain: The Rise and Fall of the Developmental State, 1930-1990 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018).

By Yovanna Pineda

English title: The ‘Nile’ of Argentina: The Irrigation Projects of the Río Negro, 1880-1910. (Translated into Spanish by Maria Eugenia Vásquez) Revista de Historia Internacional (ISTOR), Special Series on Environmental History, Año XVIII, No. 69 (Summer 2017).

By Yovanna Pineda

Estudios Económicos, Vol. XXIX no. 58 (January-June 2012): 39-61.

By Yovanna Pineda

Business and Economic History online, Vol. 1 (2003).

By Yovanna Pineda

By Yovanna Pineda

UCF History Faculty & Staff at history.cah.ucf.edu

Yovanna Pineda, Academic Research on academia.edu

AHA Member Spotlight: Yovanna Pineda