... Colombian exports gold land tenure unionists informal economy ...

... Colombian exports—long the basis of national wealth—and the labor regime that undergirds the economy are described in part VI, although the section also addresses the domestic market. For the colonial period, texts include Conquest-era reports expressing Europeans’ appreciation for foodstuffs...

... company, the Colombian state, and rural migrants who sought work in the oil fields. It asks how the creation of a foreign-dominated export enclave concentrated power in the sovereign territory of the nation-state and made possible the extreme exploitation, domination, and subordination of working people...