Health and work relations in a rural settlement of the MST in the Brazil-Paraguay border region

• Autor(a) principal: Júnior, Eduardo Espíndola Fontoura
• Data de Publicação: 2022
• Outros Autores: Souza, Kátia Reis de, Renovato, Rogério Dias, Sales, Cibele de Moura
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Trabalho, Educação e Saúde (Online)
• Texto Completo: https://www.tes.epsjv.fiocruz.br/index.php/tes/article/view/1526
• topic: saúde; trabalhador rural; MST; assentamento rural; agrotóxicos; health; rural worker;; MST; rural settlements; pesticides

In this article, we aim to report on and analyze the relationship between health and work of small farmers of the Landless Workers Movement (MST). So far as the methodology is concerned, we used participatory research and the basics of popular education. The study allowed for an understanding of health and work based on the workers' narratives, stories relating to collective struggles against exclusion and violence in the countryside. Important aspects related to this population group as were discovered, such as, for example, the sense of conquest of land ownership, the conflicts arising from 'activism,' and the differences of gender and generations. From the reports that were provided, we also examined the accidents and risks related to work in the rural settlement, particularly exposure to pesticides. It was also found that solidarity and cooperation are important values, basic elements for new relations and a distinctive mode of social organization of collective.