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From Peonage to Algorithm: The Challenge of Techno-Feudalism and the Path to Autonomy
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In the mid-nineteenth century, Yucatan's Henequenese haciendas perfected one of the most efficient and devastating labor control mechanisms in Mexican history: the peonage for debts and the strip shop. Although the 1857 federal laws explicitly prohibited forced labour and imprisonment for civil debts, the landlord oligarchy—the so-called "Divine Caste"—altered local regulations. They used the granting of financial "advances" to legally tie the M…
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