Conflitos trabalhistas na agroindústria açucareira no Brejo Paraibano.

Abstract

This research seeks to understand how the social conflicts present in the sugar industry in Paraíba are presented in the Labor Court space. For such, this research uses the case of Usina Santa Maria, implanted in Brejo da Paraíba in the 1930s and bankrupt in the 1990s, after moments of peak production in the 1970s and 1980s, mainly due to tax benefits and government subsidies. For this purpose, a bibliographical research was carried out on the social and labor relations in the northeastern sugarcane activity, the social conflicts that occurred in its interior and the associations and mobilizations of workers in the face of expropriation and exploitation, in particular the action in accordance with the legislation. Based on this reference, the documental sources of this work were explored, constituted by labor lawsuits commanded between 1987 and 1994 whose litigants were Usina Santa Maria and the workers linked to it, accessed from the Acervo Documental da Agroindústria Açucareira, located in the Central Archive of the Federal University of Paraíba (UFPB) under the custody of the research project “Reconfigurations of the social sphere in Brejo da Paraíba in the 21st century”. The investigation of these processes allows us to perceive the participation of multiple agents in these judicial conflicts in addition to indicating the issues in dispute and some possibilities and limitations of solutions