| | Identity, Worker Identity: Multiple Modes of Rural Consciousness in Highland Ecuador, MARC BECKER, EIAL XV1 - Estudios ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-20) |
 | | Instead, it was the shared experiences of exploitation through wage labor on the hacienda that led to the development of a type of proletarian consciousness, and this social cohesion provided the environment for the drafting of demands and the organization of a strike. |
 | | Hacienda worker collaboration with an urban proletariat culminated in the founding of the Confederación de Trabajadores del Ecuador (CTE, Confederation of Ecuadorian Workers) in Quito in 1944. |
 | | It was an endless frustration to hacienda owners that the peons would take things "because the hacienda belonged to everyone." As a result, both the urban leftists and the rural Indians shared a common concept of a social construction of land that responded to community instead of individual needs. |
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