Tempo e movimento entre os canaviais sob flores de canema: profissão e vida de cortador de cana

Abstract

Men immersed in the productive context of the sugar-cane agroindustry involve a set of relations that delimit a unified meaning of experience acquired from their work. The subjects of this research have been sugar-cane cutters since childhood. Nowadays, the productive context where their activities have been situated is fragmented, sutfering deep changes in its infernal organization, reproducing these men's unemployment and the loss of their community reference points. Dismissed, but at the same time available for the same tipy of labor - to eut sugar-cane- these people present forros of subordination shaped in obedience and submission, forming an identity process atributed to the sugar-cane cutters. It was required to go through the regional history course to understand the meaning of this reality, as a way to aprehend through its plot the space that delimited the emergence of the sugar-cane farming culture in the area where the eitters have been loeated. This is the content involved in "Time and Motion among the Sugar-cane Fields under Canema Flowers: the sugar-cane eutter' s profession and life"