They Eat from Their Labor: Work and Social Change in Colonial Bolivia

by Ann Zulawski

Book Overview

A study of the growth of the indigenous labor force in upper Peru (now Bolivia) during colonial times. Ann Zulawski provides case studies in mining and agriculture, and places her data within a larger historical context than analyzes Iberian and Andean concepts of gender, property, and labor. She concludes that although mercantilism made a critical impact in the New World, the colonial economic system in the Andes was not yet capitalist. Attitudes...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822983710
• ISBN13: 9780822983712
• Release Date: December 1994
• Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"