O trabalho rural e a sazonalidade do café: um estudo sobre assalariados do município de Campo Belo - MG

• Autor(a) principal: Ribeiro, Jeovana Nunes [UNESP]
• Data de Publicação: 2014
• Tipo de documento: Tese
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da UNESP
• Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/11449/124040; http://www.athena.biblioteca.unesp.br/exlibris/bd/cathedra/29-05-2015/000832182.pdf
• topic: Serviço social rural; Trabalhadores rurais - Aspectos sociais; Emprego temporário; Cafeicultores - Minas Gerais. (Estado); Política social; Café - Brasil - História; Social service

Rural Work is the theme of reflection pointed in our study in order to understand our object of study: the work conditions experienced by the coffee crop harvesters, with the aim of analyzing how workers survive the seasonal and cyclical periods of coffee, addressing primarily the working conditions and the quest for social policies as a means of survival post-cycles.The path that led us to the study of rural labor in the southern region of Minas Gerais, was, as it is considered today the largest producer of coffee in the world. This drew our attention to understand first, the rural work, taking into account the working conditions since it involves seasonal work, working hours, production, earnings; and second, the alternatives of survival faced by workers in the coffee's offseason. We used qualitative research, where we apply a semi-structured questionnaire to 20 farm workers and 01 questionnaire to the employees of the following institutions :EMATER; MTE and the Union of Rural Workers of the municipality. The harvest period is of 05 months; from the end of April and it might extend until October, which means that post-harvest many workers are temporarily unemployed. Data from field research reveal very serious situations, most work in the informal sector without any employment, deprived of social rights, including unemployment insurance in the off-season; the work process sickens workers and the compensation is insufficient for a minimum level of dignity and, most evidence is that even with the existence 0of social benefit: Bolsa Familia Program, none of our interviewees have access to social policy, with a view the character of the selectivity and conditionality of the program