Discursos e condicionantes: uma an?lise das recentes mudan?as sobre o trabalho e a condi??o dos cortadores de cana de Piracicaba

• Ano de defesa: 2015
• Autor(a) principal: Louren?o, Taiana Ciscotto Martins
• Orientador(a): Wilkinson, John
• Banca de defesa: Ramos, Pedro, Maluf, Renato S?rgio
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Universidade Federal Rural do Rio de Janeiro
• Programa de Pós-Graduação: Programa de P?s-Gradua??o em Ci?ncias Sociais em Desenvolvimento, Agricultura e Sociedade
• Departamento: Instituto de Ci?ncias Sociais Aplicadas
• País: Brasil
• Palavras-chave em Português: setor sucroenerg?tico; corte manual; condi??es de trabalho
• Palavras-chave em Inglês: sugarcane industry; manual harvesting of sugar cane; working conditions
• Área do conhecimento CNPq: Sociologia
• Link de acesso: https://tede.ufrrj.br/jspui/handle/jspui/1914

In this dissertation, we noted the constraints that lead to improved working conditions of Piracicaba cane cutters as well as the changes on the structure itself of the sugarcane industry in the interior of S?o Paulo. Our goal was understand through the speeches of various actors such as constraints were important to consolidate these changes and how they have impacted the local production chain of ethanol. We consider three key factors to base out our reflections about the current industry and the environment of the city: the economic crisis facing the sector since 2008; the severe drought that causes damages in 2014/2015 production in South Central region of the country; and the uninterrupted process of mechanization that must be understood as a deployment of laws and signed protocols that predict the end of the straw burning. We observe that these factors have strongly contributed to the acceleration of eliminate the manual work of sugarcane cutting. Concomitant to them, we consider that the initiatives aimed to improve those conditions arise at the moment of Brazilian sugarcane industry desire access to global commodity markets and, therefore, came under multilateral pressures requiring changes over the production process. In addition, we find out through our analysis that the improvement of working conditions are, in fact, an irreversible process and consolidated and, therefore, do not conditional on political and economic moment that the sugarcane industry lives. For this survey, were made two field of work in Piracicaba, where we interviewed through semi-structured questionnaires, six representatives from institutions linked to the sugarcane industry in the city and others 25 cane cutters. As conclusions we can emphasize that these improvements of work conditions are real and are independent of the scenario of crisis faced by the sector. However, two points are relevant: I) although this scenario is admittedly better than the previous decade, it is not possible to say that the legislation is fully accomplished and that all workers enjoy their full rights; II) is required to relativize these improvements seen that the growing elimination of this labor. Finally, we present the new context of the piracicabano sugarcane industry, emphasizing above all the allocated workers who manually cut sugarcane.