The labour go to Brejo: mobilization, migration and colapse of modernization.

Author(s)

Erick Gabriel Jones Kluck

• 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: 2011-09-28

Examining board members

Heinz Dieter Heidemann; Anselmo Alfredo; Vicente Eudes Lemos Alves

• Advisor: Heinz Dieter Heidemann

Abstract

This dissertation deals with the modernization that is currently taking place in Brejos da Barra (BA), more precisely Brejo da Cabeceira do São Gonçalo and in which we observe the reproduction of labour. We seek to observe how critical this reproduction is, especially because it is socially mediated by contradictory social categories that seem non-critical precisely because of this character. So, the initial question about the empirical practice of the inhabitants became a question about the modernization seen through the mediated categories of merchandise, labour and money. The formation process of these categories is similar to the process that historically formed the Brejos region and from which we can highlight the territorial mobility and the mobilization of labour through the possession of the land and of the farming process for the inhabitants own use or to develop a trade system in Vale do São Franscisco. This process is accelerated through different interventions (including state intervention) which stimulate migration. However, this acceleration creates a crisis in the reproduction of the total social capital. We observe that this process is tantamount, paradoxically, to the management of the crisis because of the proliferation of the general infrastructure and of currency and credit circulation even if this process can also be seen as the reposition of the modern categories of crisis and collapse. (AU)