"Amanhã é outro dia": falas, memórias e outras histórias de trabalhadores cortadores-de-cana em General Salgado SP, 1980 2008

Abstract

The present research aims to quest experiences of life for the workers sugar cane cutter at the General Salgado city, northwest region of São Paulo. The coming of these workers sugar cane cutter the field, and of other cities, mainly of the northeast region, represented new situations/tensions -, propagated for regional the local press/expressing and feeding reactions of different groups of the city, the region, ahead of the impact caused for this presence in the city. Searching to give visibility to the problematic ones lived by these workers, I look for to make a reflection in co-authorship with them, appealing to the ways as they interpret and they tell its experiences. Experiences that if they enunciate in the ways to work, to live, to socialize, in the proper forms of living, acting and interpreting the life, that we take and we analyze in ampler dimensions of the historical process. I searched to understand as these workers face, in the daily one, the processes of changes in the productive relations front to the mechanization of the sugar cane cut, the fight to guarantee the sustenance of the family -, as (re) they construct the convivial, (re) elaborate and internalize the values, customs, without losing of sight the tensions/social contradictions that produce and constitute in the spaces lived for the workers in its trajectories between the field and the city. From these questions placed in the present I started to reflect on the significant presence of the workers sugar cane cutter in General Salgado, disputing places and firming presence in the city in search of better conditions of life and work