Desenvolvimento do Maranhão e a Refinaria Premium-I: o processo de implantação do empreendimento e suas implicações no modo de vida e trabalho dos trabalhadores rurais de Bacabeira

Abstract

Discusses the process of implementation of Premium I Refinery in Bacabeira - Ma and its implications for the way of life and work of rural workers in the municipality. Discusses the globalization of capitalism and the metamorphoses in the working world. Contextualizes on neoliberal policy and its settings in the State, through the process of productive restructuring, evidenced in privatization, deregulation of the state, expansion of market power and changes in labor relations. Points on the logic implementation of large projects in countries and outlying regions. Contextualizes on the political development of Maranhão, from the logic of the neoliberal project, funded by federal funds and transnational, that disregard the regional diversity, culture and way of coexistence of the working class in addition to its right to use the land. Focuses the discussion on Bacabeira (MA), implantation site of the Petrobras project, electing the village of Santa Quitéria for analysis of reality in question. This dissertation is grounded in historical materialism Dialectical method, in which the analysis procedures qualitatively address the investigated data, with reference to historical and conceptual foundations for the development, labor and culture, categories of analysis used , considering the reality of Maranhão and particularities the municipality of Bacabeira ( MA ), precisely the town of Santa Quitéria. Highlights the lifestyle and work of the working class St. Quitéria, their forms of organization and resistance to earthly sojourn as a condition of employment, housing and survival from Petrobras announced development in the region.