Science and Technology Production
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Authorship
Date
2011
Publishing House and Editing Place
Cambridge University Press
Magazine
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.
Key Words
colonial Andesfree labourunfree labour16 and 17th centuries
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