Monocultivo de eucalipto, relações de trabalho e os caminhos da resistência camponesa no Assentamento São Joaquim (MS)

Abstract

This current research intends to understand how the eucalyptus monoculture has been influenced the families in São Joaquim Settlement, in the municipality of Selvíria – Mato Grosso do Sul. It was important to identify the life and work‟s paths of the settled until their arrival in the settlement, as well as their ways of resistance/persistence in the land. We also indicate questions related to the social, economic and environmental impacts provoked by the eucalyptus monoculture in the settlement, aimed on the wage labour of the settleds who work in the eucalyptus plantation companies. Through some interviews with the settled peasants, we have discussed which impacts does the eucalyptus‟ monoculture provoke in the settlement and how is the relation between the plantation and the wage labour, trying to understand it like a resistance way in São Joaquim Settlement. So, we try to understand the different reasons which led the peasant families into the wage labour, and the resistance actions that are allowing these people to keep as peasants in São Joaquim Settlement.