A mobilidade espacial do trabalho no Sertão de Alagoas: a migração dos camponeses da Serra do Cavalo / Água Branca e do Povoado Ouricuri / Pariconha, rumo ao corte de cana

Abstract

This research presents a reflection on the spatial mobility of the work in the Sertão de Alagoas, with as a cut the migration of the peasants of Serra do Cavalo / Água Branca and Ouricuri / Pariconha towards the sugarcane cutting. This research has a qualitative and quantitative character, having the questionnaire as instrument of data collection. As for the theoretical contribution, based mainly on a Marxist analysis, where made use of Gaudemar (1977), Cardoso (2016), Gomes (2009), Albuquerque (2014), Oliveira (2007), Almeida e Silva (2009)) among others. The empirical part was based on community visits and data collection through peasant reports. Analyze the historical context of labor mobility in capitalism, and how the displacements were established in Brazil, as well as the process of seasonal subsumption of the peasantry class to capital, but which is part of the phenomenon called recreation of the peasantry, which aims at class reproduction Social. It was found that migration is part of the strategies of survival of the peasantry, which let itself be subjugated by capital. The research also offers a reflection on the singularity present in the displacements of each one of the communities, including the indigenous peasants without distinction of their ends. Thus, it was possible to verify that both the peasants of the Serra do Cavalo / Água Branca and the indigenous peasants of the Ouricuri / Pariconha, when migrating seasonally to the sugarcane cutting, do this as an alternative to reproduce as social class or traditional people in the case of the Geripankó of Ouricuri. In this way, mobility in this sense is considered as resistance to the abusive practices of capital. By migrating, these peasants demonstrate how contradictory is the capitalist system of production, where at the same time as it tries to alienate the peasantry from the means of production, it creates alternatives for the reproduction of its way of life. In this sense the peasant establishes a non-capitalist social relation within capitalismo even submitted to its injunctions. Thus, the peasantry in a cyclical movement always tries to reinvent itself and resist in an increasingly capitalist society, recreating itself as a social class.