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This article shows how Argentine judges effectively came to make labour law when ruling in occupational accident cases between 1900 and 1915. During this period, in the absence of a specific occupational accident law, a number of Argentine workers who had been victims of occupational accidents sued their employers for damages according to the Civil Code. By reinterpreting the principles of the Civil Code in these cases, Argentine judges attempted to accommodate aspects of a new social and economic reality to an increasingly outdated legal framework. The article argues that, in doing so, these judges articulated their own solution to one of the central issues of the time: the ‘social question’. Furthermore, the article shows how the judiciary's particular solution to the social question effectively defined the kind of citizenship rights workers were able to claim in court.

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was as old as the century, yet, deep into the 1880s, slavery continued to enjoy general support among both the planters and their representatives, comprising the majority of both parties. Slavery was perceived as irreplaceable in terms of private fortunes and plantation labour-thus, one might suggest instead that the importance of British abolitionist support for the movement may have lain with impact on the movement itself. The leaders of the movement successfully sought to recruit from the urban middle class and masses ; a central part of the abolitionist argument to them, as both the introduction and the correspondence here make clear, was that slavery undercut Brazil's claims to, or potential for, civilisation. Britain, as one of the great exemplars of civilisation, provided an opinion that mattered. Support for Brazil's Abolitionists in the London Times doubtless provided the invaluable impression that their movement had the blessing of the civilised world. These letters are the invaluable record of how that opinion was shaped and transmitted.