Alston, Lee J.; Mattiace, Shannan; Nonnenmacher, Tomas - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2008
While most contemporary historians agree that the use of debt peonage as a coercive labor contract in Mexico was not widespread, scholars still concur that it was important and pervasive in Yucatan state during the henequen boom of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The henequen boom...