Trabajadores y prácticas recreativas. otra mirada al mundo del trabajo en américa latina (1930-1950)

This article identify the main lines of research o recreational practices -free time, leisure and tourism- in the Latin America labor world during the 1930s and 1950s, complementing national approaches with transnational perspectives. These recreational practices took place in the context of the changes that led to the development of mass culture, the populism and the industrialization process experienced by numerous countries of this continent. This historiographic recount allows to conclude the large number of publications on recreational practices, although many of them framed in the classic social and cultural approaches of the labor movement.