Free and unfree labour in the colonial Andes in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries

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Autoría

GIL MONTERO, RAQUEL

Fecha

2011

Editorial y Lugar de Edición

Cambridge University Press

Revista

INTERNATIONAL REVIEW OF SOCIAL HISTORY, vol. 56 (pp. 297-318) Cambridge University Press

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This article analyses free and unfree labour in mining centres in the Andes during early Spanish colonial times. It focuses on two themes: the condition of indigenous or "native" people as "free labourers", and the mita system of unfree labour. For that purpose I shall consider the cases of Potosí, the most important mining centre in the Andes, and San Antonio del Nuevo Mundo in southern Bolivia, a large mine unaffected by the mita system of labour obligations.

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colonial Andesfree labourunfree labour16 and 17th centuries

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