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WOMEN AND WORK IN COLONIAL LATIN AMERICA. THE EXTERNAL ECONOMY IMPERIAL PHILOSOPHIES OF TRADE PRODUCTION MINING PLANTATION AGRICULTURE: SUGAR (RUM), TOBACCO, COCHINEAL LIVESTOCK (HIDES, TALLOW, ETC) FOREST PRODUCTS (TIMBER, DRUGS, CACAO) LABOR SOURCES: FREE, UNFREE
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WOMEN AND WORK IN COLONIAL LATIN AMERICA • THE EXTERNAL ECONOMY • IMPERIAL PHILOSOPHIES OF TRADE • PRODUCTION • MINING • PLANTATION AGRICULTURE: SUGAR (RUM), TOBACCO, COCHINEAL • LIVESTOCK (HIDES, TALLOW, ETC) • FOREST PRODUCTS (TIMBER, DRUGS, CACAO) • LABOR SOURCES: FREE, UNFREE • GENDER STRUCTURE OF THE ECONOMY • ROLE OF LATIFUNDIA • ROLE OF SLAVERY, ENCOMIENDA • MYTHS AND REALITY
EXPORTS OF MINERALS COMPARED TO OTHER COLONIAL PRODUCTS TO 1660
THE INTERNAL ECONOMY • GRAIN • ANIMALS • VEGETABLES: MANIOC, BEANS, SQUASH, POTATOES, TOMATOES, OTHER GREEN VEGETABLES • TRIBUTE PRODUCTION • GENDER STRUCTURE OF THE INTERNAL ECONOMY • HOW DO WE ESCAPE FROM STEREOTYPES OF MALE LABOR? • WHERE DO WE LOOK FOR FEMALE LABOR: RURAL, URBAN • SIGNIFICANCE OF CLASS AND CASTE
INDIAN WOMEN WOVE PLAIN TRIBUTE CLOTH BUT MAINTAINED THEIR USE OF PATTERNS AS SIGN OF IDENTITY
RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE INTERNAL AND EXTERNAL ECONOMY • SIGNIFICANCE OF THE SUBSISTENCE ECONOMY • SIGNIFICANCE OF MIGRATION AND URBANIZATION ON GENDER STRUCTURE OF THE LABOR FORCE