A Territorialização do Grupo Agroindustrial Canavieiro Louis Dreyfus no Mato Grosso do Sul

Abstract

This research aimed at analysing the relationship that is established between the sugar cane agro-industrial capital and the social/labour matters as well as the environmental and territorial ones in the current political and economical conjecture, which is extremely favourable for sugar cane agro-industrial capital. It is understood that owing to the implantation of the new agro-processing units, there was a rearrangement of the agricultural basis in which other cultures stop being produced in order to provide land for the sugar cane. The intention here is to answer the following question: what are the impacts caused by both the implantation of the sugar cane agro-industrial units and, consequently, the implantation of the Louis Dreyfus group since the expansion of the land used for the cultivation of sugar cane is intensive in the state of Mato Grosso do Sul particularly in the municipalities of Maracaju and Rio Brilhante? Therefore, studies and an empirical research are performed. This combination allows us to learn the ways and the actions adopted by the LDC-SEV group. It is noticed that there is an intensification/consolidation of the sugar cane agro-industrial activities especially in the Center-South, but there are many local and regional specificities. There working relations are highlighted as in this sector they are expressed in the degrading work conditions or in the work precariousation according to the capital retractation, reverberating through capital x labour in a direct way. Furthermore, it is verified that the trade unionism is only a fragile motionless corporation facing the capital power. Nonetheless, the territorialization of the sugar cane capital in Mato Grosso do Sul means the monopolization of the territory by the national groups, but mainly international ones. Thus, the sector finds its sustentation basis in the political and economical elites, enlarging the relations of domination and social control.