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Indians and Leftists 

This is an Electronic Appendix of documents to accompany my book Indians and Leftists in the Making of Ecuador’s Modern Indigenous Movements (Duke University Press, 2008).


Wages of huasipungueros (1895-1964)

  1895 1899 1906 1910 1915 1920 1925 1931 1935 1940 1946 1950 1955 1962 1964
Sucres 0.05 0.1 0.2 0.3 0.5 0.75 1 2 3 6
Relative value 100 200 400 400 400 364 160 240 120 143 214 235 471 667 1333

Daily wages of huasipungueros relative to 1895


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