Trabalho e trabalhadores na região do "Mar de Cana e do Rio de Álcool"

Abstract

This article analyzes the situations of workers, temporary migrants, employees in the sugar-cane and alcohol industries at rural areas of São Paulo state, considered to be the largest in country. In the last decades it has been verified that the employment of machines and advanced technologies are walking side by side with the increase of exploration and worsening of work conditions, characterized by low wages, loss of rights, cases of enslavement through debts, besides the deaths registrations, caused by discharges of productivity demands, and uses of stimulating drugs during work. This article focuses the analysis of the invisible currents that contribute to the over exploration and enslavement of rural workers. The permanence of migrating labor, falsely denominated temporary, is the support of the agrobusiness lucrative model related to the sugar-cane industries from São Paulo state.