Entre promessas e contradições: dilemas da ação política na trajetória do Sindicato dos Trabalhadores Rurais de Muriaé-MG

• Autor(a) principal: Sensato, Elisa de Jesus Garcia
• Data de Publicação: 2013
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: LOCUS Repositório Institucional da UFV
• Texto Completo: http://locus.ufv.br/handle/123456789/4198
• topic: Trabalhadores rurais; Sindicatos; Representação política; Rural workers; Unions; Political representation; CNPQ::CIENCIAS AGRARIAS::AGRONOMIA::EXTENSAO RURAL

Recognized and bound by the Brazilian state, since the second half of the twentieth century, as the institutional means of political representation of rural workers, unions have, over the past decades, a number of changes with regard to its relations with the state and the perception of their role in society. These changes influenced the exercise of different forms of political action by workers from these organizations and many consequences entailed the formation of a union action in the political field. In order to understand how they settle and legitimize the parameters for the exercise of such action, this study investigated the trajectory of a Rural Workers Union, founded in 1986, in the municipality of Muriaé in the state of Minas Gerais. From the analysis of the organization's documents and reports collected through the completion of twenty-three interviews with rural workers, political leaders, and social mediators was possible to point out several limitations to the exercise of political action that present themselves as economic, social aspects and properly politicians, from certain political struggle, the political field. The establishment of a formal structure of political representation is configured as a process from which it is possible to understand these limitations and their consequences for the political organization of workers in rural Brazil.