Labor could be recruited from nearby indigenous communities on an as-needed basis, such as planting and harvest time.[1] The permanent and temporary hacienda employees worked land that belonged to the patrón and under the supervision of local labor bosses. In some places small scale cultivators or campesinos worked small holdings belonging to the hacendado, and owed a portion of their crops to him. In a number of places, the economy of the 18th century was largely a barter system,[citation needed] with little specie circulated on the hacienda.