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MEJIAS DIAZ, Jesús Javier. The institutional scaffolding of Havana arts and crafts apprenticeship, 1839-1849. Acad. (Asunción) [online]. 2025, vol.12, n.1, e1103.  Epub 08-Jan-2025. ISSN 2414-8938.  https://doi.org/10.30545/academo.2025.n1.1103.

This article has as its object of study the institutional scaffolding of the arts and crafts learning branch of the Industry and Commerce Section of the Royal Economic Society of Havana between 1839 and 1849. An analysis is carried out on the structuring and implementation of the control devices in the apprenticeship branch during the decade of its existence. Apprenticeship officials tried to ensure the social control of masters, officers and apprentices throgh apprenticeship deeds, penitentiary correction, and supervision over workshops, masters and their employees by neighborhood inspectors. In search of a new work ethic for marginalized urban sectors the apprenticeship branch expanded its initially conceived institutional limits, generating interactions and spaces of delimitation. In order to trace the way in which this scaffolding of power was manufactured and evolved, it was necessary to carry out an exhaustive analysis of the documentary and printed sources contemporaries to the Apprenticeship Branch. From them it emerged that the social discipline of the artisan sectors tied - through a legal architecture - the Havana intermediate manufacturing groups to the economic modernization project of the sugar elites at the dawn of the first industrialization in Cuba.

Palavras-chave : Artisan; Havana; apprenticeship; institution; social control.

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