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Electronic Appendix 

These documents 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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