Caldo de cana, bagaço de gente: desproteção e degradação do trabalho na agroindústria canavieira

Abstract

This research aims at analyzing the conditions of life and work of cane cutters in the city of Mamanguape - Paraíba. Given the understanding of reality, research has prioritized the knowledge of the method in Marx (1983), and the study of Marxist economic categories essential to the apprehension of the social question in its various expressions, which in the case of sugarcane cutting reveals on the devices used by capital to obfuscate the abuse that thousands of workers are subjected. Based on this understanding, we analyze the relations of production of agribusiness cane sugar, with the privileged object the cane cutter. In the case of this worker, capital is used strategically salary for production, forcing him to step up his activity and generating, in turn, the most perverse forms of exploitation. Given the rationale of Social Service, this research aims to know this particular form of exploitation, seeking closer ties with one of the expressions of social issues. It is noticed that the social question, the result of capital-labor contradiction is at the same time, the object of intervention and knowledge of Social Work. Based on this understanding, this research acquires significance insofar as it lies in agribusiness cane sugar, which summarizes economic segment wealth and poverty, expressing thus the mode of being of capitalist development.