Mobilidade territorial da força de trabalho: a vez dos trabalhadores supranumerários de São José da Laje, Alagoas

Abstract

The capital is also a social relationship and a process in motion. However, it is this fluidity and flexibility of the capital that causes things to change direction and acquire variable shape and function. So it is with the goods, so with money and also with the workforce that are always circulating on all sides to maintain continuous dynamics of capital appreciation. Indeed, the merchandise takes on different values when it is put on the market to circulate. This research aims to analyze the contradictions imposed by the restructuring process in the sugar cane universe and how this process is impacting and diversifying the directions of the labor force in geographic space through new forms of domination and exploitation. For this study, we sought to examine the mobility of workers of this sector.We chose the city of São José da Laje, Alagoas, as the empirical universe considering migration in the city a constant, and also for its diversity. So with the major technical-scientific informational development, a new (re) definition of social and territorial division of labor is put into action. Amid this new economic environment, emerges a growing labor demand where the capital is installed with great force. This fact shows that these changes come from the restructuring process and that having the neoliberal policy as a participant, produced a new configuration to the territory that severely impacted the labor market. In view of these other things, sought to address the discussions involving geographic knowledge to other social sciences and so seek not to develop another concept of labor mobility, but above all improve the already built, searching, however, explain how this movement takes place behind the grooming networks of lajenses workers.Thus, the main reason for this study was the need to understand more clearly and thoroughly the workforce mobility phenomenon in the municipality, in order to also understand about the articulated network the trajectory of migrant workers linked to intermediation mechanisms of labor, which is also another objective to be attained. For this research, we adopted the historical- structural approach and to achieve this scope, there have been several studies in primary and secondary sources. With this work, we identified that migration has caused a significant loss of population, and that poverty, unemployment and the search for better living conditions drive young people to migrate, and the income the determining variable. We also found that through the regimentation of labor force mobility in site is much more complex than previously thought, it is, therefore, a forced migration.