%0 Journal Article
%T Optimizando recursos escasos en un ¨¢rea de frontera: La opci¨®n por la mano de obra esclava en grandes estancias entrerrianas de tiempos coloniales
%A Djenderedjian
%A Julio
%J Quinto sol
%D 2011
%I Scientific Electronic Library Online
%X this article discusses the various pros and cons of replacing salaried workforce by slaves in large livestock production units of the r¨ªo de la plata at the end of the xviiith century and the beginnings of the xixth. century. it tries to show that, beyond its convenience at costs level, to form a big group of slaves was an investment of some risk, and represented a significant financial effort. in addition, it involved a rearrangement of organizational production patterns, which were not necessarily simple.
%K manpower
%K peons
%K slavery
%K livestock production
%K river plate
%K colonial era.
%U http://www.scielo.org.ar/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S1851-28792011000200001&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en