Event
The mining mita
A forced labour draft that supplied miners to Potosí and other mines in the Spanish viceroyalty of Peru, 1573 to 1812; the reference entry credits Viceroy Toledo with setting it up.
- Dates
- 1573–1812
- Place
- Potosí
A forced labour draft that supplied miners to Potosí and other mines in the Spanish viceroyalty of Peru, 1573 to 1812; the reference entry credits Viceroy Toledo with setting it up.
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- Potosí According to Melissa Dell Scholarship & press 1
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Potosí
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The reference entry: Toledo set up the colonial mita without the Crown's approval, drafting over 11,000 Indians a year for Potosí; and, in its judgment, it coerced reluctant Indians and subsidised production through low wages.
appears in
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The Persistent Effects of Peru's Mining Mita
According to Melissa Dell
Scholarship & press
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Dell's finding concerns districts that were subject to the mita. Only the abstract was read.
Timeline 1 date
- 1573–1812 The mining mita
Proof 2 sources
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Melissa Dell, The Persistent Effects of Peru's Mining Mita, Econometrica 78(6), 2010 (abstract on the journal's page), The Econometric Society, Nov 2010.
Scholarship & press
an extensive forced mining labor system in effect in Peru and Bolivia between 1573 and 1812
lowers household consumption by around 25% and increases the prevalence of stunted growth in children by around 6 percentage points in subjected districts today
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Mita (entry in a Gale encyclopedia of Latin American history and culture), on encyclopedia.com, Gale, via encyclopedia.com.
Scholarship & press
Viceroy Francisco de Toledo (1569–1581) established the colonial mita, issuing laws regarding the size of the draft levies, the wages to be paid the workers, and the frequency with which an individual worker served.
Without approval of the crown (which remained ambivalent about the morality of coerced labor but willing to profit from it), Toledo instituted a formal mita for the silver mines and mills at Potosí between 1572 and 1575.
Each year it mobilized over 11,000 Indians from the highland provinces between Potosí and Cuzco.
The mitas coerced reluctant Indians into participating in the colonial economy and subsidized economic production through low wages.
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