MINERÍA POPULAR Y ESTRATEGIAS DE SUPERVIVENCIA: PIRQUINEROS Y PALLACOS EN EL NORTE CHICO, CHILE, 1780-1950.

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  • Author(s): Godoy Orellana, Milton1 (AUTHOR)
  • Source:
    Cuadernos de Historia. dic2016, Vol. 45, p29-62. 34p. 4 Black and White Photographs.
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    • Alternate Title:
      POPULAR MINING AND SURVIVAL STRATEGIES: PIRQUINEROS AND PALLACOS IN THE NORTE CHICO, CHILE, 1780-1950.
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    • Abstract:
      The article analyzes mining in the popular sectors of the Chilean Norte Chico, focusing on pirquineros, especially with regard to continuity, plus pallacos and maritateros, whose practice is extinguished in the nineteenth century. The origin of these names and their practices as a popular survival strategy and variations, specifically pirquinería, presented since the end of the eighteenth century is studied. In this context the perception of elite working on the pirquinería, their questioning and persecution, to become the so-called system “pirquén”, a sort of lease mines by payment in cash or part of the production system that coexisted in the twentieth century with the traditional pirquinería, characterized by operations performed by a worker or group of them with scarce capital and technology. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
    • Abstract:
      El artículo analiza la minería en los sectores populares del Norte Chico chileno, centrándose en los pirquineros, especialmente con relación a su continuidad, además de pallacos y maritateros, cuya práctica se extingue en el siglo XIX. Se estudia el origen de estas denominaciones y sus prácticas como una estrategia de supervivencia popular y las variaciones que, específicamente la pirquinería, ha presentado desde el fin del siglo XVIII. En este contexto se analiza la percepción de la elite acerca de la pirquinería, su cuestionamiento y persecución, para devenir en el denominado sistema “a pirquén”, una suerte de arriendo de minas mediante el pago en efectivo o con parte de la producción, sistema que coexistió en el siglo XX con la pirquinería tradicional, caracterizada por explotaciones realizadas por un trabajador o grupo de ellos con escaso capital y tecnología. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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