La Workforce in Callao and Guayaquil colonial shipyards

Abstract

Shipbuilding job and maintenance of warships demands the participation of a variety of specialists, usually grouped into guilds and brotherhoods, and now known in a collective way as navy workforce in the Peruvian viceroyalty, the main shipyard was Guayaquil, while Callao was the main port for naval forces assigned to protect the South Pacific. In both ports there was a significant workforce, oriented in the first case to shipbuilding and in the second to the maintenance and repair of ships. This article seeks to get it be known on how these workforces performed their duties during the colonial period, hoping to grab the attention of other researchers into the subject, which survives to that period and has reached today through public and private companies in all the countries.