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  • AGRICULTURAL WORKERS’ STANDARD OF LIVING DURING CENTRAL CHILE'S AGRARIAN EXPANSION, 1870-1930

  • Claudio Robles-Ortiz, Ignacio González-Correa, Nora Reyes Campos, Uziel González Aliaga
  • Journal:
    Revista de Historia Economica - Journal of Iberian and Latin American Economic History / Volume 41 / Issue 1 / March 2023
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    25 March 2021, pp. 183-212
    Print publication:
    March 2023
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  • The purpose of this paper is to determine trends in the wages and living standards of male agricultural labourers in Central Chile during the agrarian expansion, c. 1870-1930. We found that nominal wages increased eightfold; this is relevant because wage labour became the main rural labour regime in this period. Nominal wages rose steadily from the early 1870s until 1910, and with significant fluctuations thereafter, before plummeting with the Great Depression. Real wages also increased, but only slightly. Furthermore, during certain short periods, agricultural labourers' real wages were similar to or higher than those of low-skilled urban workers. However, the persistent gap between agricultural and non-agricultural wages was one of the causal factors of the outmigration of rural workers.