Closing in on the training process of steel workers in SOMISA (1960-1966)

Abstract

The Joint Venture Steel Argentina (SOMISA), began production after the decisive impulse the National State gave to the project of Gen. M. N. Savio in the early 1960s. Based on the strategic role for national industrialization process that the installation of the first integrated cycle steel plant had, we remmarck one of the problems needed to ensure optimal operation: the training process / training of its workforce. We noted the different strategies implemented by the company to train its staff, including the commissioning of the plant in November 1960, and the end of its first expansion of production in July 1966. We pointed out the influence of the main precepts of development theory and the role of transnational capital in these processes. The need to have enough qualified staff to achieve quality and growth involving the proposed work has been an important issue of consideration in the documents that shows the planning of this industry, which contains the business look , as in the appropriation that workers do in their identification with the company. We find significant contribution to the knowledge about these processes, to unravel the workings of one of the most iconic companies in the steel sector in the country.