Os trabalhadores boias-frias da cidade de Pontalinda SP: trajetória e cultura, 1991 - 2010

• Autor(a) principal: Ferreira, Horácio dos Reis Marques
• Data de Publicação: 2011
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da PUC_SP
• Texto Completo: https://tede2.pucsp.br/handle/handle/12710
• topic: Trabalhadores boias-frias; Trabalho de campo; Cultura e resistência; Boias-frias workers; Rural workers; Culture and resistance; CNPQ::CIENCIAS HUMANAS::HISTORIA

In this research I sought to understand the culture of boias-frias workers of Pontalinda town, São Paulo State, as way of life, values, habits, customs and work. It undertakes the period of 1991 to 2010, when Boia-frias population had settled in urban space as a result of rural exodus and the presence of migrants from the Northeast, with a predominance of Bahia s people. The work enabled me to hear and interpret the trajectories and cultures experienced by boia-fria workers, to understand how these social actors give meanings to the present and the past which is redesigned according to their experiences today. I sought to investigate the relationship instituted in urban space, the ways of living, housing, fighting, working and recreation of the workers that with their actions were registering their brands. The narratives record the history of struggle and resistance of these workers in search of space and survival within society, and value the memory of those ones, who are the main labor force for the development of the region, so far. The dialogue with oral sources, the written ones (newspapers, magazines, official documents, labor, criminal) and photographs, enhanced the memory of the Boia-frias people, bringing out other stories and other views on the subject of past and present of these people. The issues raised and the dialogues with evidence, thinking about this story as unique in an enclosed space and built by humans unique, led me to reflect on the full history as lived experience and socially, in a field of contradictions, domination and resistance. As E.P. Thompson, I do not start from hypotheses and look for sources to confirm them. Rather, I start from the sources, the issues raised by evidence, in order to question the Boia-frias people of Pontalinda town of São Paulo