O "tranco da roça" e a "vida no barraco": um estudo sobre trabalhadores migrantes no setor do agronegócio canavieiro.

Abstract

The purpose of this dissertation is to study the sociability of migrant workers, cutters, cane sugar, in housing and work spaces, emphasizing the relationships of domination and resistance that is done inside the sugarcane agribusiness sector of the state of Sao Paulo. It analyzes the social process of seasonal migration of peasants from the Northeast, in the Interior of Paraíba, located within the strategies of social reproduction of the family. It looks at the constitution of the sugar cane agribusiness and the use of migrant labor force. It describes the social life developed in workspaces (reed space) and housing (accommodation), observing the forms of social cohesion and conflict, the established hierarchies in the work process, codes of conduct in the living space. It is said that the transience of the world of "cut cane" is a condition for interpreting the everyday forms of resistance, migrant workers in relation to the process of exploring the work submitted. This is a qualitative research that seeks to combine the techniques of direct observation (living in the accommodation and reed space) and interviews with migrant workers and regimented.