Tokens of Oppression: Coinage at a Nineteenth-Century Galapagos Sugar Plantation
Author(s): Ross W. Jamieson
Year: 2017
Summary
In the 1870s Manuel J. Cobos founded the El Progreso plantation agricultural operation on the Island of San Cristóbal in the Galapagos. It is known that he used "scrip," or company-issued cash, to force workers to only spend their wages at the company store. Archaeological recovery of hard rubber tokens from several plantation contexts brings up many questions of economics and labour relations surrounding this remote location which was also tied to the global economy through steam power, commodity agriculture, and ideas of modernity.
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Tokens of Oppression: Coinage at a Nineteenth-Century Galapagos Sugar Plantation. Ross W. Jamieson. Presented at The 81st Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Vancouver, British Columbia. 2017 ( tDAR id: 430867)
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Keywords
General
commodities
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Currency
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Plantation
Geographic Keywords
South America
Spatial Coverage
min long: -93.691; min lat: -56.945 ; max long: -31.113; max lat: 18.48 ;
Record Identifiers
Abstract Id(s): 16638