O cotidiano dos trabalhadores de Caturité e do cariri paraibano: história, memória, crimes, justiça e sindicalismo (1950-1980).

Abstract

This paper studies the daily lives of Cariri workers, especially the eastern cariri, with greater emphasis on Caturité and Boqueirao from the years 1950 to 1980 period in which we will cover labor relations, forms of domination and resistance, the economic and social aspects in the context of the cotton crop and agave; also study the struggle for labor rights in the justice bars, the formation of the big mouth of the Rural Workers Union in the early 60s, as well as the close relations with the Catholic Church and the welfare policy of the union, in order to understand all this process in the context of the military coup and the situation experienced by the Northeast in the 60s, 70s and 80s, a time that droughts devastated the population causing deaths and forcing many to move to the southeast of the country. In this direction there is to consider regional differences accentuated from the 50s with industrialization in the Southeast and the precarious agrarian sector of the Northeast, combined with the works against droughts, such as building dams and roads that favored the large landowners who dominated local politics. In this context we analyze further processes crimes involving workers and an election crime process that leads us to coercion used by the colonels in the elections in the interior of Brazil.