The work on the fields of the sisal of the small city of Valente-Bahia in the 1970s and 1980s

Authors

  • Cassiano Ferreira Nascimento

Keywords:

Trabalho. Sisal. Valente-Bahia.

Abstract

The commercial extraction of the sisal in Bahia, since its beginning at the end of 1930, did not happen in accordance with the labour law at the time. The introduction of a new machine in the first improvement of the plantation, in the middle of the decade of 1950, resulted in the restructuration of the organization of work, maintaining this activity reduced to the field of sisal. Based on the testimony of rural workers and the a few number of written sources found, in this article examines on the practice of work in fields of sisal of the small city of Valente, in the 1970s and 1980s, focusing on work relations, their structure and the risks of this activity, as the mutilation of fingers, hands and arms, that had until the first half of the decade of 1980 maltreated at least one thousand two hundred workers.

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Published

04/05/2017

How to Cite

Nascimento, C. F. (2017). The work on the fields of the sisal of the small city of Valente-Bahia in the 1970s and 1980s. Revista Eletrônica História Em Reflexão, 10(20), 38–57. Retrieved from https://ojs.ufgd.edu.br/historiaemreflexao/article/view/6203