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220:) and given to the Spanish official who would move them to a different area to do whatever labor was needed. Legally, these systems were not allowed to interfere with the Amerindians own survival, with only 7-10% of the adult male population allowed to be assigned at any time. These Amerindians were paid wages for their labor, which they could then use to pay tribute to the Crown. 228:, these mining drafts were brought in indigenous workers through this draft labor system to do backbreaking work. While there were attempts to guard against overwork, abuses of power and high quotas set by mine owners continued, leading to both depopulation and the system of indigenous men buying themselves out of the labor draft by paying their own 292:) for six months to a year, during which time the worker was required to be paid a salary, and provided living quarters as well as religious services. In Northern New Spain, this was a frequent occurrence. This area was not greatly populated, and because of this, it was harder for the Spanish to enforce 311:
labor was unreliable, wage labor was the dominant form of labor used in New Spain. Although not ideal, the Spanish Crown allowed this as silver was their priority for trade with China after the Ming Dynasty made silver the only currency for internal taxation and external trade.
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Native men, working around 3 to 4 weeks a year, could also be put to work by the local government in public works such as harvests, mines, and infrastructure. Mining, specifically, was a concern for the Crown as well as Peruvian viceroy. Enacted by Don
204:, or later a Spanish settler or official, would be given and supervised a number of indigenous workers, who would labor in farms or mines, or in the case of the Philippines might also be assigned to the ship yards constructing the 116:
system that had come to be seen as abusive and promoting of unethical behavior. The Spanish Crown aimed to remove control of the indigenous population, now considered subjects of the Crown, from the hands of the
184:“included natives, who resided in native communities, where native law and native authorities (as long as they did not contradict Spanish norms) prevailed.” It was in this second domain where the 775: 136:, in that the worker is not owned outright—being free in various respects other than in the dispensation of his or her labor—and the work was intermittent. However, it created 745: 208:. This would come from Hispanic miners or agriculturalists putting in a weekly application for labor with the district magistrate or a special judge who is in charge of 740: 350:. The decline of rotational draft labor in New Spain paved the way for one of the first capitalist societies in the world as Amerindian laborers who left their 166:
system no longer made economic sense since there were not enough Amerindians remaining. They needed to consolidate labor, which they did in a process known as
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had already established a centralized tribute system, as well as a common identity, and already had experience with a rotational labor system from the Incan
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did not experience this same development because the Amerindians remained landed for longer, having access to their own means of production.
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had ownership over their land, but, deemed subjects of the Spanish Crown, they had to pay tribute.
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The Mexican Heartland: How Communities Shaped Capitalism, a Nation, and World History, 1500-2000
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who had become a politically influential and wealthy class, with the shift away from both the
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were drafted work for cycles of weeks, months, or years, on farms, in mines, in workshops (
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The diminution of the number of natives in the Americas due to European diseases (
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labor. Adult males of the community whose turn it was to go were assembled by the
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Silver Capitalism and Indigenous Republics: Rebuilding Communities, 1500–1700
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influenced in part by a similar draft labor system the Inca used also called
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were landless and instead sold their labor to purchase food and housing.
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The Cambridge History of Latin America. Vol. 2, Colonial Latin America
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labor from. Northern New Spain had the most silver mines, and because
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system was replaced by “two parallel yet separate ‘republics’.” The
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The World's History, Third Edition: Combined Volume (pages 457-458)
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in New Spain. In order to evade these compulsory labor system of
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The PotosĂ­ Mita, 1573-1700: Compulsory Indian Labor in the Andes
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system and the creation of privately owned farms and
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Index

Repartimento
[repaÉŸtiˈmjento]
indigenous population of Spanish America
Philippines
tribute
mit'a
Inca Empire
corvée
Ancien RĂ©gime de France
Amerindians
New Laws
encomienda
slavery
slavery
Peru
mit'a
reducciones
conquistador
Manila galleons
Francisco de Toledo
smallpox
influenza
measles
typhus
haciendas
wage labor
reducciones
Viceroyalty of New Spain
Peru
Inca Empire

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