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Resistance of the Peronist Workers
The majority of workers in the country had become orphans, so to
speak, when the military coup forced Perón into exile in 1955. True,
they declined to take up arms for “the old man” or even to take to the
streets as in 1945, but they remained
peronistas
in their hearts. The loy-
alties of the old workers would not have sufficed to bring back Perón,
for the older workers were being replaced on the shop floors by new-
comers. The rural-urban migration patterns continued in the 1950s and
1960s. Another million or so migrants came to Buenos Aires seeking
industrial jobs.
Immigration, once again, played an important role in the making of
the urban working class of Argentina. This time, in a new wrinkle that
held through the rest of the century, the immigrants came not from
Europe but from neighboring Latin American countries. Paraguay and
