GOMES, M. B.; http://lattes.cnpq.br/0725720608575145; GOMES, Monalisa Borges.
Resumen:
The sugarcane agribusiness is characterized by the exploitation of temporary migrant
workforce. These workers are peasants, who in the face of insecurity and instability in
accessing land, seek in the external work a way to reproduce their lives. In this process,
the recruitment of labor is done through mediators, called turmeiros that establish the
link between workers and the cane mills. The proposal of this study was to investigate
how is this character in this scenario and what are the strategies used for the selection
and hiring of employees. The purpose of this dissertation is to analyze the social and
economic transformations of the city of Pindaí-BA and the impacts on the reproduction
of living conditions of peasant workers seeking temporary migration. So, attempts were
made to identify how the turmeiro is defined, whose responsibility is to recruit workers
in the setting of temporary migration. We also analyze how does the selection and
hiring of temporary migrant workers made by turmeiros. It is a qualitative research that
sought to combine the ethnographic observation techniques (space of coexistence and
events at the source), using the diary, interviews with workers, family and turmeiros,
and analysis of statistical data. The conclusion of this research is that turmeiros,
mediating agents are figures that, despite receiving a different role of other workers,
being responsible to internalize and disseminate the rules and cane mill values in order
to conduct an obedient and disciplined worker. It is also part of a scenario of labor
exploitation. The research also contributes to present the punishments that cane mills
establish for workers who do not finish the harvest by relegating them to be excluded
from new selection processes.
