Knowledge Production and Forced Labor: The Intellectual Work and Worlds of Andean Mitayos in the Late Colonial Period.
This article, which focuses on silver mining in the colonial Andes, attempts to bring silo-ed conversations in the history of science and labor history into a shared dialogue. In so doing, it offers a way to reassess the traditional historiographic consensus that independent wage laborers were “...
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This article, which focuses on silver mining in the colonial Andes, attempts to bring silo-ed conversations in the history of science and labor history into a shared dialogue. In so doing, it offers a way to reassess the traditional historiographic consensus that independent wage laborers were “high skilled” and forced laborers were “low skilled.” Through linguistic analysis and legal case studies, it shows that miners often crossed back and forth between labor categories and positions, and that frameworks like skills and wages are inadequate to understand workers’ experiences and expertise in highly coercive extractive industries like mining in the colonial period.
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| spelling | doaj-art-4453669d63ea43bb8818122cbcd6fd252024-11-13T12:49:38ZengUniversidade Federal de Santa Catarina (UFSC)Revista Mundos do Trabalho1984-92222023-10-011510.5007/1984-9222.2023.e95228Knowledge Production and Forced Labor: The Intellectual Work and Worlds of Andean Mitayos in the Late Colonial Period.Allison Bigelow This article, which focuses on silver mining in the colonial Andes, attempts to bring silo-ed conversations in the history of science and labor history into a shared dialogue. In so doing, it offers a way to reassess the traditional historiographic consensus that independent wage laborers were “high skilled” and forced laborers were “low skilled.” Through linguistic analysis and legal case studies, it shows that miners often crossed back and forth between labor categories and positions, and that frameworks like skills and wages are inadequate to understand workers’ experiences and expertise in highly coercive extractive industries like mining in the colonial period. https://periodicos.ufsc.br/index.php/mundosdotrabalho/article/view/95228MiningLabor historyHistory of scienceColonial periodAndes |
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| title | Knowledge Production and Forced Labor: The Intellectual Work and Worlds of Andean Mitayos in the Late Colonial Period. |
| title_full | Knowledge Production and Forced Labor: The Intellectual Work and Worlds of Andean Mitayos in the Late Colonial Period. |
| title_fullStr | Knowledge Production and Forced Labor: The Intellectual Work and Worlds of Andean Mitayos in the Late Colonial Period. |
| title_full_unstemmed | Knowledge Production and Forced Labor: The Intellectual Work and Worlds of Andean Mitayos in the Late Colonial Period. |
| title_short | Knowledge Production and Forced Labor: The Intellectual Work and Worlds of Andean Mitayos in the Late Colonial Period. |
| title_sort | knowledge production and forced labor the intellectual work and worlds of andean mitayos in the late colonial period |
| topic | Mining Labor history History of science Colonial period Andes |
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