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).
Guachalá
Hacienda Production (1930-1933)
Year
|
Gross
Income
|
Expenses
|
Net
Income
|
1930
|
127,125.71
|
108,104.65
|
19,021.06
|
1931
|
99,231.71
|
45,369.00
|
53,862.71
|
1932
|
52,524.11
|
24,714.55
|
27,809.56
|
1933
|
69,985.68
|
13,731.85
|
56,253.83
|
Total
|
348,867.21
|
191,920.05
|
156,947.16
|
Average
|
87,216.80
|
47,980.01
|
39,236.79
|
Source:
Detalle de la producción de Guachalá, Archivo Histórico del Banco Central del Ecuador, Fondo Bonifaz (AH/BC), Quito, 17/A/5.
Number
of Workers on Guachalá Hacienda (1763-1892)
Year
|
Workers
out of debt
|
Workers
in debt to the hacienda
|
Total
number of workers
|
1763
|
114
(66%)
|
60
(34%)
|
174
|
1783
|
141
(60%)
|
93
(40%)
|
234
|
1819
|
76
(29%)
|
183
(71%)
|
259
|
1892
|
159
(36%)
|
280
(64%)
|
439
|
Source:
Archivo Histórico del Banco Central del Ecuador, Fondo Bonifaz (AH/BC), Quito; Emilio Bonifaz, "Origen y evolución de una hacienda histórica: 'Guachalá' II," Boletín de la Academia Nacional de Historia (BANH) 53, no. 116 (July-December 1970): 349.
Note:
Galo Ramón V., La resistencia andina: Cayambe, 1500-1800, Cuaderno de discusión Popular no. 14 (Quito: Centro Andino de Acción Popular, 1987), 249-50 lists quite different figures, and includes
1772 but omits 1892.
Peasant
Cost of Living Index (1771-1995)
(Number
of days' work required to purchase product)
Year
|
Cow
|
Sheep
|
Horse
|
Corn
(100
lbs.)
|
Potatoes
(100
lbs.)
|
1771
|
20
|
10
|
32
|
2
|
3
|
1783
|
24
|
2.5
|
18
|
*
|
*
|
1819
|
28
|
10
|
*
|
18
|
*
|
1891
|
60
|
3
|
300
|
10
|
15
|
1970
|
133
|
7
|
133
|
4
|
3
|
1995
|
150
|
40
|
60
|
3.4
|
3
|
*Information
not available
Source:
Archivo Histórico del Banco Central del Ecuador, Fondo Bonifaz (AH/BC), Quito; Emilio Bonifaz, "Origen y evolución de una hacienda histórica: 'Guachalá' II," Boletín de la Academia Nacional de Historia (BANH) 53, no. 116 (July-December 1970): 346; Diego Bonifaz Andrade, Guachalá: Historia de una hacienda de Cayambe (Quito: Ediciones Abya-Yala, 1995), 38-39.
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