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dependientes

English translation: dependent labourers

21:50 Aug 2, 2020
Spanish to English translations [PRO]
Social Sciences - History
Spanish term or phrase: dependientes
This is a text about the exploitation of Indigenous peoples by the Spanish and then the independent nation in Argentina:

Usurpadas sus tierras, operó entonces un nuevo despojo: fueron sometidos a un nuevo orden ya no como indios, sino bajo otras categorías que expresaban la desigualdad. Quedaron cautivos dentro de las estancias, haciendas y fincas de sus anteriores encomenderos y vecinos estancieros, que acapararon sus tierras. Pasaron de ser encomendados y tributarios a ser “arrenderos”, “agregados”, “gente de servicio”, “dependientes”. Dejaron de figurar como indios en los padrones y censos, y pasaron a figurar como peones, criados, sirvientes.
Wendy Gosselin
Argentina
Local time: 15:02
English translation:dependent labourers
Explanation:
The longue durée of Colonial Violence in Latin America - jstorwww.jstor.org › stable
America's indigenous population as mere victims of Spanish or Portuguese ... Mexico, parts of the Amazonian lowlands, the pampas of Argentina, and south- ... ending as dependent labourers on the haciendas of Europeans others con-.
by W Gabbert - ‎2012 - ‎Cited by 13 - ‎Related articles

Workers of the World - DigitalCommons@ILR - Cornell ...digitalcommons.ilr.cornell.edu › cgi › viewcontentPDF
May 3, 2013 - with Nicolás Iñigo Carrera and Maria Celia Cotarelo, two Argentinian researchers from ... more or less dependent labourers composed of chattel slaves where possible ... use of semi-servile native populations as labourers.
2013 - ‎Related articles

Full article: 'Una Esclavitud Simulada': Debt peonage in the ...www.tandfonline.com › doi › full
... patriarchal customs of both Hispanic and indigenous society: the first enabled ... as in Comitán, they increasingly became dependent labourers resident within ...
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Local time: 15:02
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4 +6dependent labourers
patinba
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Barbara Cochran, MFA
3indentured servant/s
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dependent labourers


Explanation:
The longue durée of Colonial Violence in Latin America - jstorwww.jstor.org › stable
America's indigenous population as mere victims of Spanish or Portuguese ... Mexico, parts of the Amazonian lowlands, the pampas of Argentina, and south- ... ending as dependent labourers on the haciendas of Europeans others con-.
by W Gabbert - ‎2012 - ‎Cited by 13 - ‎Related articles

Workers of the World - DigitalCommons@ILR - Cornell ...digitalcommons.ilr.cornell.edu › cgi › viewcontentPDF
May 3, 2013 - with Nicolás Iñigo Carrera and Maria Celia Cotarelo, two Argentinian researchers from ... more or less dependent labourers composed of chattel slaves where possible ... use of semi-servile native populations as labourers.
2013 - ‎Related articles

Full article: 'Una Esclavitud Simulada': Debt peonage in the ...www.tandfonline.com › doi › full
... patriarchal customs of both Hispanic and indigenous society: the first enabled ... as in Comitán, they increasingly became dependent labourers resident within ...

patinba
Argentina
Local time: 15:02
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
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agree  Brent Sørensen: This is what I was about to post
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  -> Thank you, Brent!
agree  philgoddard
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agree  JaneTranslates: Note: UK spelling. If US English is desired, don't forget to write "laborers."
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  -> Yes. Thanks!
agree  Chema Nieto Castañón
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agree  Andy Watkinson
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agree  Reuben Wright
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clerks


Explanation:
https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/spanish-engli...

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Note added at 3 hrs (2020-08-03 01:04:25 GMT)
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"sellers"

Barbara Cochran, MFA
United States
Local time: 14:02
Specializes in field
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PRO pts in category: 16
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dependiente/s
indentured servant/s


Explanation:
Indentured does not always mean a contract has been signed up tp to or imposed, rather figuratively that a master-indentured servant relationship exists.

Example sentence(s):
  • An indentured servant or indentured laborer is an employee (indenturee) within a system of unfree labor who is bound by a signed or forced contract (indenture)
  • An indentured servant or indentured laborer is an employee (indenturee) within a system of unfree labor who is bound by a signed or forced contract (indenture) to work without pay for the owner of the indenture for a period of time.

    Reference: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indentured_servitude
Adrian MM.
Austria
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
neutral  Francois Boye: is it true in this context?
4 hrs
  -> Dependiente literally means an employee and, in the UK, would be subject to an employer-employee 'control test'. These native Indians would have been unlikely to have been offered a contract of employment, rather been treated as 'indentured' labo/u/r.
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