Trabalho e relação de trabalho na mineração taboca

Abstract

This study makes an approach to company Mineração Taboca, especially with to the subject of work and employment relationships experienced by pioneer workers of Pitinga. The 1980s is the background of this study that verify how much workers were faced with authoritarian power relations at the workplace, an emphasis on its political organization in Pitinga mine, located in Presidente Figueiredo, Amazonas. It s all about extractive industry workers that work in mine owned by Taboca Mining, a company founded in early 1980. The study assumes the contribution of qualitative approaches, using techniques of interview semi-structured, implemented with a sample of 12 workers. The whole course of the work is illuminated by the methodological perspective of history from below, proposed by Thompson, to bring relief to the life stories of the social subjects of low social status. We analyzed the expansion of capital in the Amazon and its development in large projects in the Amazon, which negatively impacted the environment and life of traditional peoples, while showing that the disciplinary authority has caused extreme difficulties in the relationship between the mining company and the workers. The research reveals that the trade union was about as subservient to the bosses, in view of the union leader and tied to employer power. It shows that the process of forming a union alternative in 1990 occurred organically and through the base, which, however, annulled by the courts direct influence of the mining company. Notes, finally, that despite the difficulties encountered during work activities in the 1980s the pioneering work of Pitinga somehow managed to make her future, currently living in relative well-being. This study is of fundamental importance as it could be in a document to support strategies for worker s action with the government, and contribute new approaches to raise this issue not yet explored.