The "issue" of workers in a mining company at Western Catamarca (second half of XIX century). Contributions from a little-known documentary corpus
Among the mining projects that were launched in the mid-nineteenth century in the West of Catamarca, stands out the one established by Casa Lafone, which, mainly dedicated to the exploitation of copper and associated with agricultural-livestock, wine and craft activities, incorporated technology inn...
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Instituto de Arqueología y Museo, Facultad de Ciencias Naturales e IML, Universidad Nacional de Tucumán
2018
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| Acceso en línea: | http://publicaciones.csnat.unt.edu.ar/index.php/mundodeantes/article/view/144 http://suquia.ffyh.unc.edu.ar/handle/suquia/10086 |
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| Sumario: | Among the mining projects that were launched in the mid-nineteenth century in the West of Catamarca, stands out the one established by Casa Lafone, which, mainly dedicated to the exploitation of copper and associated with agricultural-livestock, wine and craft activities, incorporated technology innovations and concentrated a large number of workers. In this work we will analyze the mining activity of this company, paying particular attention to the relationship dynamics that were established among those who worked there. Likewise, we intend to focus on the perceptions that weighed on them and the possible impact that the marks of ethnic alterity –which we hypothesized were still valid since colonial times– had in the evolution of those socio-labor relationships and, more specifically, in the recruitment, control and discipline practices. From this reduced scale analysis, we seek to contribute to the reflection around a problem extended by those years: the declared “shortage of workers”. To this end, in addition to consulting edited sources, we will concentrate on the analysis of an unpublished and little-known documentary corpus deposited in the Historical Archive of Tucumán: the letters sent by one of the company’s administrators to its owner. |
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