“Nós vivia nos tempo do cativêro”: vivências e trajetórias de trabalhadores rurais brasilminenses (1970/90)

Abstract

The present dissertation intends to discuss how the economic organization and disorganization strategies based on agricultural activity took place in Brasília de Minas, whose social relations and practices were gradually changed in the late 1980s and early 1990s. In this way, it was possible to find former rural workers who, through their daily narratives, brought us a perspective of work on rural properties in the municipality where social relations diverged widely from what the 1963 Rural Worker Statute advocated. n this sense, following the narratives of these rural workers in their daily work and experiences among their peers, emphasizing the transformations and permanences suffered by these populations during the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s has become something valuable for understanding the structuring of the city Brasília de Minas in such. At this time, peripheral neighborhoods were being randomly formed by migrants from rural areas of the municipality, bringing in their luggage a make and a life that gave these localities peculiar characteristics, confronting the way of life of the residents of the central parts of the city. Thus, giving voice to those historical subjects became of paramount importance to understand their struggles and survival strategies in the face of the situations found in their condition as workers and former rural workers and later, migrants living on street São Francisco, neighborhoods Alto Claro and Santa Cruz, aka Andu.