There are numerous tribes of prehistoric populations in the southern part of Chile. These groups include the <em>Mapuches</em>, <em>Huillches</em>, <em>Cuncos</em>, <em>Chonos</em>, <em>Kawesgar</em>, and <em>Yaganes</em>.
Although agriculture was their primary economic activity, these groups relied on fish and seals as a source of protein and fat. These were essential goods when the time of winter came. Although they did practice fishing, these people's beliefs were based on the respect for the environments in which the animals lived, avoiding any sort of activity that would disrupt these.
The deskilling of manufacturing. As technology advanced, workers increasingly lost the proud Independence that had been a characteristics of their craftwork. This was because of the deskilling of labor under a new system of mechanized manufacturing that industrialist Henry Ford woould come to call "mass production".
