SÃO PAULO-80: LABOR IN THE AGRARIAN COMPLEX IN THE SEVENTIES

Abstract

The study of labor in the agrarian complex of São Paulo in the seventies is better analysed if the sociability created in agriculture is understood as a set of social relations not limited to this sector, but as something created by the advance of industrialization in farming and by the behavior of agroindustries. The forms, volumes and changes of labor are seen as integral processes in the construction of the São Paulo agroindustrial complex, and agriculture as a moment of this complex. An historical perspective allows us to speak of a movement from the collapse of the coffee complex to the dominance of the agroindustrial complex, distinguishing three periods: 1920-50, characterized by the collapse of the coffee complex and restricted modernization with an increase in em-ployment; 1950-65, characterized by restricted but amplified modernization, with an increase in employment; and 1965-80, a period of generalized modernization, with a decrease in employment and the construction of a new sociability. Preceding this analisys are a series of observations on the production of statistics relevant to the working populations and its various categories.