As condições de trabalho dos cortadores de cana-de-açúcar em Alagoas e os mecanismos de fiscalização dos direitos trabalhistas

• Autor(a) principal: Silva, Edivanda Maria Rodrigues da
• Data de Publicação: 2017
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da UFS
• Texto Completo: http://ri.ufs.br/jspui/handle/riufs/7463
• topic: Serviço social; Agroindústria canavieira; Ambiente de trabalho; Direitos dos trabalhadores; Cana-de-açúcar; Trabalhadores rurais; Cortadores de cana; Condições de trabalho; Direitos trabalhistas; Alagoas; Cane cutters; Work conditions; Labor rights

This study aims to analyze the working conditions of sugarcane cutters in the state of Alagoas and the state mechanisms to ensure the effectiveness of labor rights. Specifically, it seeks to understand the development of the sugarcane agroindustry and the work of the sugarcane cutter in Brazil and Alagoas; To know the actions of state agencies that act in the inspection and enforcement of the labor rights of this segment in the state of Alagoas; To identify how unions have taken action to defend the rights of these workers; And analyze how the working conditions and compliance with labor rights of sugarcane cutters are found in Alagoas, specifically those working in the mills located in the vicinity of Jequiá da Praia. It is a descriptive research, of the qualitative type, but also referred to in statistical data. It is anchored in the dialectical historical materialist method, which enables the apprehension of reality from its multiple determinations. It contemplated the following researches: a) bibliographical realized through books, periodicals, articles and specialized magazines; B) a documentary that occurred through the use of reports, newspaper reports, Terms of Adjustment and Conduct and labor legislation; C) and that of the field that occurred with interviews involving union leaders and sugarcane cutters. In the case of the unions, seven leaders were interviewed who were members of the rural workers' unions of Jequiá da Praia, São Miguel dos Campos, Murici, Atalaia, Paripueira, Ibateguara and União dos Palmares, all affiliated to the Federation of Agricultural Workers of Alagoas. The interviews were conducted during a meeting with the trade union leaders, in order to facilitate access to the interviewees, who were chosen based on the availability and interest in participating in the survey. On the other hand, interviews with sugarcane cutters were carried out in the municipality of Jequiá da Praia, chosen because it is located near several sugar mills and distilleries and, consequently, many sugarcane workers. For the interviewees' choice, the snowball method technique was used, reaching saturation point with 14 interviews. Snowball is an intentional, non-probabilistic type of sampling, used in social research in which the first participants of a study are responsible for indicating other respondents, and so on, successively until reaching the goal. We interviewed 14 sugarcane cutters who developed their activities between the years of 2008 and 2016. The main results pointed out that although there are state inspections, sugarcane cutters in Alagoas are still experiencing precarious working conditions. They are young workers who, although part of them have a formal contract, most companies disagree with labor rights. The working conditions are permeated by extensive and intense working hours, which can reach 14 hours a day; They receive by production, always with back pay and insufficient to maintain the family subsistence; Absence of workers in weighing and measuring sugarcane; Very poor condition of equipments for individual safety; Recurring occupational accidents and diseases; Problems with transportation, water, food and mobile toilets, among others. It was found that the presence of the union in labor matters is notorious and important, although many sugarcane cutters do not know well the work developed by the unions and criticize the actions developed by them.