2011/08/26 by Raquel Gil Montero · 1 citation
Social Sciences · Arts and Humanities · #History and Politics in Latin America #Historical Studies in Latin America #Latin American history and culture
paper · pdf · doi:10.1017/s0020859011000472
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Summary 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.