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| Author(s): |
Fábio Teixeira Pitta
Total Authors: 1
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| 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: | 2011-06-29 |
| Examining board members: |
Anselmo Alfredo;
Amelia Luisa Damiani;
Antonio Thomaz Junior
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| Advisor: | Anselmo Alfredo |
| Abstract | |
This thesis aimed at analyzing the Proálcool (1975 1990) and its consequences to the sugarcane industry at São Paulo state, trying to relate it to the process of modernization promoted by Brazilian State, which redefined the role of agriculture on the national process of capitalist accumulation. It sought, also, to verify if that industrys state subvention necessity for credit outpointed a capitalist accumulation crisis on its actual form, from what Marx called fictitious capital. Therefore, we questioned if the sugarcane industry debts with the Brazilian State, at the end of the 1980s (as the last period of Proálcool), expressed the fictitious moment of capitalist reproduction as the impossibility (one without State subventions) of that industry to reproduce itself whether from labor exploitation, or from the ground rent extraction. This dissertation tried to answer it by thinking on the history of capital territorialization on local agriculture and by data examination, in order to comprehend the relations between its insertion at this particular capitalist accumulation moment and the changing of social production relations as they existed before that modernization process (the agregado, at Vale do Jequitinhonha; and the colono, at São Paulo). Precarious labor of day-laborers, thus, could be interpreted as an expression of labor society crisis, being the high capital organic composition of sugarcane industry the ground from where this labors characteristics are/were conformed, although this composition is widely seen as economic growth. With fieldworks at Olímpia area (São Paulo), we intended to comprehend how capital personifications (landlord, capitalist and laborer) see this crisis moment and if they relate it as being from the capitalistic social form itself. (AU) | |