A economia colonial e a particularidade da manufatura açucareira

Abstract

This dissertation is a study subject analysis of colonial sugar manufacturing with the aim of seeking to seize their particularities in relation to manufactures classic studies by Marx. Because of the sugar mills are inserted in the historical process of colonization, became necessary to discuss the colonial economy by exposing two Marxist interpretations to the question. Such interpretations about the global economy have enabled us to understand the colonial socioeconomic fundamentals that explain the striking features of the craft such as slavery and the division of labor. Through iconographic resources and time reports seek to highlight the character existing manufacturing from the earliest mills in the sixteenth century, emphasizing the means of labor and organization oh production that were used for export production. Improving manufacturing occurred in the seventeenth century will be considered on its implications on workers and productivity, showing that the slave relations of production were consistent with technical and organizational typical of mercantile capitalism. Cooperation based on division of labor – manufacture – is presented not only as compatible with slave labor, but also as a necessity for the systematic use of this type of production relations. Such relationships production deepened further separation of manual work in relation to intellectual work hallmark of manufacture, and therefore print a particularity to manufacture sugar which is designated as an imperfection in relation to european manufacture. Besides this particularity of socioeconomic nature, the mill suffered from another flaw resulting from raw material benefit, that it had negative effects as it would undermine the predictability of production common in other productions. Thus, the particularity of manufacture sugar will appear as imperfections imposed by slave relations of production and the contingency imposed by raw material.