ABSTRACT Eight decades of ethnographic research provide a rich dataset for studying the changing organization of labor in households involved in specialized pottery production in the Purépecha region of Michoacán, Mexico. Relevant ethnographies are examined to identify the contributions of household members who might be considered “the potter” and the “hidden producers” who are integral to production. This study finds task differentiation, flexibility in task allocation by age and gender, innovation in response to market demand, and changing household composition, together with persistence of household-level pottery production across eight decades. The task-based division of labor and flexible allocation of tasks to different household members facilitates intensification of production, when necessary, and its persistence through political instability, shifting markets, population increase, state-level intervention in pottery production, and wage labor migration out of the region. This approach provides a dynamic, longitudinal model for understanding the organization of household pottery production in the past.

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“他们也能提供帮助”：1940 年代至 2020 年墨西哥米却肯州陶器制造家庭中隐藏的生产者和协作劳动组织的灵活性

摘要 八年的民族志研究为研究墨西哥米却肯州 Purépecha 地区从事专业陶器生产的家庭中不断变化的劳动力组织提供了丰富的数据集。相关的民族志被检查，以确定家庭成员的贡献，他们可能被视为“陶工”和“隐藏的生产者”，他们是生产不可或缺的一部分。本研究发现了任务差异化、按年龄和性别划分的任务分配的灵活性、响应市场需求的创新和不断变化的家庭构成，以及八年间家庭级陶器生产的持续性。以任务为导向的分工和灵活分配到不同家庭成员的任务有利于在必要时集约化生产，它通过政治不稳定、市场转移、人口增长、国家级对陶器生产的干预以及该地区的工资劳动力迁移而持续存在。这种方法为理解过去的家庭陶器生产组织提供了一个动态的纵向模型。