Trabalhadores-migrantes nos canaviais paulistas: sociabilidades, condições de trabalho e formas de resistência.

Abstract

Every year thousands of Northeastern workers leave their homelands to work on the São Paulo sugar plantations during the sugar-cane harvest. These people have been the focus of several studies, which have highlighted the coercive nature of this migration and the intensity of exploitation of workers in the sugar-cane fields. Without rejecting the relevance of these studies, it is my intention, within this thesis, to understand how migrant workers from the regions of Princess Isabel, Paraíba Valley and Pajeu, Pernambuco, have been affected by this process, by considering their social networks, conditions and working relationships in the cane fields and by focusing mainly on the forms of domination used by companies in the sugar-cane sector in order to extract an ever-increasing quantity of over-work and on the other hand, the forms of resistance taken up by the workers in order to address the exploitation of its workforce. This removes the veil that covers up and obscures the humanity of these workers, and seeks to reveal them in their status as subjects of their stories, a story that is not the way you want, but it shows the real possibilities and the weapons at their disposal.