Region of colonato: mobilization of work and financial autonomy of capital in Olimpia\'s area (1857-1964) in Oeste Paulista

Author(s)

Cássio Arruda Boechat

• Document type: Master's Dissertation
• Press: São Paulo.
• Institution: Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH/SBD)
• Defense date: 2009-06-26

Examining board members

Heinz Dieter Heidemann; Amelia Luisa Damiani; Maria Aparecida de Moraes Silva

• Advisor: Heinz Dieter Heidemann

Abstract

This thesis aimed at a manner to deal with the concept of region, already discussing the formation of social relations of production, which, taken as being particular, characterize a region. We therefore thought on the formation of value relatization assumptions, distinguishing the way the concept of colonization is taken when related to the colonial period and to the colonato system in the coffee production in the later Nineteenth century so-called Oeste Paulista (the west portion of Brazilian são Paulo state). The colonato region was thought through three different approaches. The first of them dealt with the private property formation of the city of Olímpia, São Paulo, area. There we tried to show how it had to do with the civilizatory violence against the local Indian populations, also with the breading of new cities and with a particular form of State in Brazil\'s First Republic period: the coronelismo. In second approach, we thought the colonato region as a product of a State policy that organized the coffee productioon expansion and, mainly, a mass imigration in order to establish the relative super-population in the Oeste Paulista. finally, we sought to analyze the concretization of such coffee production expansion (and, thus, the colonato expansion) together with the different phaes of the process and, in the other hand, analyzing the colonato contract and its apllication in a Olimpia area coffee farm. In general, we put the region as a \"accelerated\" (or \"later\") modernization and the social relations of production as part of a capital autonomization process. with this, we draw a picture of the labor force reproduction possibilities in these (regional) conditions of lacking of a formed relative super-population and its implications to life in general of an epoch\'s population. (AU)