Política de qualificação para o setor sucroalcoleiro: uma crítica aos limites do Estado moderno

Abstract

This paper analyses the PLANSEQ - Sector Qualification Plan, created by the Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva Government in 2007, targeted at the National Sugar and Alcohol Sector, as part of the action set of PNQ - National Qualification Plan (2003). The choice of this topic was motivated by the research of our undergraduate thesis (2009), which found that the education level of sugar cane cutter workers in Alagoas is very low, generally staying within the first year of elementary school and, further, that the majority of workers who said they had attended school for some years were functionally illiterate. Given this, we decided to investigate in the research for our Master’s Degree in Brazilian Education, which is the response of the State for the deplorable situation of education of the sugar and alcohol sector’s workers. Well, the PLANSEQ represents this response and as a result of his analysis, we intend to demonstrate the limits and the (im)possibilities of the Modern State to meet the demands of the proletarian class. To give direction to our investigation, we will present in the first chapter an overview of the historical context that gives rise to the creation of PLANSEQ: capital's structural crisis, the crisis of Fordism and neoliberalism. In the second chapter we will analyse the document of PLANSEQ, but checking before the guidelines of the plan that gives rise to it, the PNQ. Finally, in the third chapter, we will identify which limits that state policies contain in themselves when it comes to serve the interests of the proletarian class. Our methodology was bibliographical and documentary research and our method of analysis of the real was Marxian ontology.