RELAÇOES DE TRABALHO E RESISTENCIA CAMPONESA NO DESENVOLVIMENTO DEPENDENTE NO MARANHAO: o assentamento Califórnia como uma expressão

Abstract

The present research analyses the relations of peasants work and resistence marked by the dependant development in the Sate of Maranhão in the contemporary transformations, particularized in the reality of the settlement California, Acailandia, a settlement organized by the Movement of the Landless MST- in the process of the struggle for land in this Federal Unit. Considering that the work relations suffer historic determinations with a root in the inherent contradictions of the capitalist production manner, brought forth the necessary reproduction of non-capitalistic forms, such as the example of the Peasantry. In this manner, the families in the settlement experienced the political and ideological contradictions that characterize the Brazilian Agrarian Reform policy, as well as inserting themselves into the socio-economic dynamic of the Municipality as expression of the restructuring of work demanded by the present capital crisis given that the new forms of productive organization utilizes destructive mechanisms and strategies-represented by principally by the Mining Industry s activities and by the agribusiness which sustains itself through the intensification of precarious work. The role of the State assumed in the New International Labor Division has a strong link with the Agrarian Question that suffers important alterations with a reconfiguration of the social country folk as well as the work relations and resistance. The research shows that in spite of these reconfigurations the peasant families have created struggle strategies, mechanisms and resistance that go beyond the land struggle with political articulations, both internal and external, production organization along with technical and political formation with the object of being guaranteed their social reproduction. In this way they turn to the categories of development, the agrarian question, the countryside, the agribusiness, work relations and peasant resistance.