TRABALHO NO RECÔNCAVO: AUGES, RUPTURAS E DINÂMICA RECENTE

Abstract

The history of the Reconcavo is marked by struggles, resistance and work, especially black and slave labor. Black men and women with their work, whether in sugar cane, in the tobacco plantations or in the manioc orchards contributed to consolidate some of the most prosperous regions of Brazil. First region of Brazil to undergo a process of urbanization. For almost three centuries it was the most important region of Brazil. In the Reconcavo an important sugar industry was developed. Sugar cane mills helped to shape the economy and society of the Reconcavo with its extensive production, landlord and slave labor, first indigenous and then black. At the threshold of the 21st century, the Reconcavo received important investments in the education sector that caused important changes in the profile of the worker. There are in fact multiple reconcavos in which the changes impacted each one of a different form. Thus, within this perspective the following research problem arises: Taking into account the changes that have occurred in the various work processes because the Reconcavo has passed since the period of slavery, what is the nature of the work in the Reconcavo in the 21st century?