Sample collection on women migrants at the Archivo Capitular de Mallorca below
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Collection: Libretas de las campañas de recolección de la aceituna | Notebooks of the olive harvesting campaigns (Crown of Aragon—Kingdom of Majorca/Spain: 1658–1659, 1679–1680)
Description: Field notebooks on olive pickers working seasonally in the Kingdom of Majorca. The notebooks document the workers’ participation in the olive harvest and olive oil production and their salaries. Information recorded for each migrant women worker includes her given name, surname, village of origin and number of days working in the fields. Most notebooks of this type were kept in the family archives of nobles and have not survived; these notebooks were uniquely preserved in the Chapter Archives of Mallorca.
Archive address: Plaça de la Seu, s/n C/ del Capiscolat, 2 07001
Reference number: 16922, 16923.
Links: Visit the Chapter Archive of Mallorca’s website.
Publications: Jover-Avellà, G., & Pujades-Mora, J. M. (2020). «Mercado de trabajo, género y especialización oleícola: Mallorca a mediados del siglo XVII». Revista de Historia Agraria 80, 1–33; Jover-Avellà, J., & Pujades-Mora, J. M. (2017). «A ro de 28 sous i mig oli mes, i mesureta»: els salaris de les collidores d’olives a Mallorca, 1645–1687. Estudis d’història agrària, 65–102; Jover-Avellà, G. J., Pujadas-Mora, J. M. P., & Rodríguez, A. M. S. (2017). ¿ Quiénes eran los mozos en las regiones mediterráneas? Salarios y movilidad de los mozos en el mercado de trabajo de Mallorca, 1654-1680. Mundo Agrario, 18(39), 1–20.
Contributor: Joana Maria Pujadas-Mora