END MANUAL OF SUGAR CANE CUT IN ITUIUTABA (MG) AND ITS IMPACTS FOR WORKERS

• Autor(a) principal: Matos, Patrícia Francisca de
• Data de Publicação: 2018
• Outros Autores: Fratari, Marina Franco, Carvalho, Rogério Gonçalves de
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Geo UERJ
• Texto Completo: https://www.e-publicacoes.uerj.br/geouerj/article/view/29749
• topic: sugarcane; worker; precariousness; Cana-de-açúcar; trabalho; precarização

The expansion of sugar cane cultivation in the Microregion of Ituiutaba (MG) is restructuring the agrarian space of all municipalities by changing the relations of production, replacing crops, concentrating land and modifying labor relations. The production of sugarcane has occurred through leasing and land partnerships, which leads to the gradual reduction of diversified food production and culminates thus the monoculture of sugar cane. Result of the installation of sugar cane agribusiness and expansion of sugarcane production, the hand labor migrant to the court was present. However, the bankruptcy of two sugarcane agribusiness, the mechanization of sugarcane and the end of burnings contributed to the cane cutter jobs were extinct. In this context, it is important to understand the conditions of life and work of the cane cutter worker in the  Microregion , that is, as has been their integration into the labor market, what are the main difficulties, tensions and uncertainties they are facing.