Terra Bela: mais um assentamento de trabalhadores rurais no Maranhão.

Abstract

It addresses the emergence of rural workers' settlements in the recent context of the Maranhão economy. In a broad sense, the discussion on rural settlements and understood as part of the agrarian question in the capitalism. Aspects of some theoretical elaborations are different authors, on the one hand, point to the disappearance of production in the face of the advance of business units and, on the other hand, interpret family production as a system of its own, whose existence corresponds to a social need. Studies are agricultural production based on the work of the family group does not show signs of disappearance, although it assumes different degrees of importance in the regions of the world. Particularly in the case of Maranhão, it is observed that the recent reinvigoration of the link between the regional economy and of world capital implies a redefinition of tenure relations and property, in particular with regard to land, with the disarticulation of pre-existing forms of production organization and the consequent conflicts between small farmers and new landowners. O emergence and the spread of agrarian reform settlements are shown, however, as a response of the excluded to the concentrative character of the development. The Terra Bela settlement, on the other hand, not only the sense of conquest of the land by workers as it favorable for its growth, or because of its location the open perspectives with the emancipation of the municipality of Buriticupu. However, the social and technical organization of family production if it remains in the settlement, it may represent hindering the consolidation of experience.