Mandatários, solteiras e abonados: relações de trabalho, trabalhadores e trabalhadoras nas usinas de Pau-rosa (1950 – 1980)

Abstract

This Master's thesis is premised analyze labor relations and the daily lives of workers in rosewood plants of the lower Amazon region in the period 1950-1980, the time that marks the peak and the decline in production and marketing of essence of rosewood in this region. The working relationship is actualize through a stipend, known regionally as "allowance", hence the existence of the "wealthy" who were the actual workers: men and women, compulsory mode, they spent their forces work in different tasks in these extractive means of production, with an imminent risk of their own lives. Workers were recruited in their families locus to exercise a kind of compulsory labor. The men spent weeks and weeks in subhuman conditions, infiltrates in the woods with their instruments work, a network in his lap, a flour ration and dried fish handful: the handles of rosewood extraction. While women in the distribution of tasks within the rosewood machining production process, they fit especially compulsory sexual intercourse with pau-roseiros workers in transit by so-called "currutelas". In currutelas had the houses of women, unhealthy and uncomfortable places where such workers alighted and recepcionavam their customers, for their respective intimate relations in exchange for some "valleys" switchable. Therefore, workers of both sexes formed a squad for the promotion of the stick-rosebush economy in the medium Amazon River, whose social relations of production, took the form of compulsory labor, materialized in the exploitation of these workers and a local system of stipend, known as "abonamento" or "bonus"