Policías en el mundo rural pampeano: reclutamiento y mercado de trabajo (Territorio Nacional de La Pampa, 1884-1920)

Abstract

This article highlights the question of who were the ones who chose to join the police within the options of the labor universe in the National Territory of La Pampa, with an emphasis on the last decades of the 19th century and the first two of the 20th century. Access to work in the police is presented as a basic piece of the labor market, data are made and evidence is offered on the socio-demographic profile, taking into account its institutional trajectory. The reconstruction of some trajectories is privileged in order to advance in the knowledge of the logics, practices and personal strategies with different contents of rationality when staying in the police institution or alternating work. Understand that the elections and actions of the police depend not only on the institutional demands and shortcomings or political conjunctures, it serves to demonstrate the importance and weight of their biographical journeys and their professional trajectory.