Apprentices in Mexico: between artisan paternalism and the compulsion of the obraje (XVI-XVIII centuries)
This article studied a sample of 1927 indenture contracts signed in Mexico City throughout theviceregal period. Among its objectives is to integrate the problem of artisan apprenticeship inLatin America in the debate that has arisen in Europe about this form of instruction in aspectssuch as the geog...
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Centro de Estudios Históricos Profesor Carlos S. A. Segreti
2023
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| Acceso en línea: | https://revistas.unc.edu.ar/index.php/anuarioceh/article/view/41783 |
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| Sumario: | This article studied a sample of 1927 indenture contracts signed in Mexico City throughout theviceregal period. Among its objectives is to integrate the problem of artisan apprenticeship inLatin America in the debate that has arisen in Europe about this form of instruction in aspectssuch as the geographical, social and ethnic origin of the apprentices. And to analyze what roleplayed the guilds and other forms of labor organization like the obrajes in the transmission ofmanual knowledge. The evidence provided indicates that castes and obrajes were key variablesthat explain the peculiarity of the New Spain case, as well as the imposition of a paternalistic modelof apprenticeship. |
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