A produção canavieira apresentou transformações, nos últimos anos, com a intensa incorporação de máquinas agrícolas. Contudo, existem assimetrias que marcam as regiões produtoras. Diante dessas diferenças, o presente artigo tem como proposta investigativa analisar como se comportaram os acidentes e mortes dos trabalhadores canavieiros nas diferentes regiões produtivas brasileiras. A investigação mobiliza dados secundários das bases RAIS e Smartlab. Utiliza como recorte temporal os anos de 2012 a 2021. As análises se desenvolvem a partir de observações realizadas sobre a evolução do número de acidentes e mortes registradas, a taxa de incidência, de mortalidade e letalidade do período. Os resultados revelam que há semelhanças e diferenças entre as regiões. Quanto às similaridades, ambas as regiões apresentaram redução nos registros acidentários, embora note-se que o Norte-Nordeste apresente taxas de incidência acidentária maiores que a região Centro-Sul. Em contrapartida, a região mais mecanizada, Centro-Sul, tem taxas de mortalidade e letalidade maiores
The production of space is constituted by the determinations of labor. Under the capitalist system, thinking about the configurations and reconfigurations in the world of work acquires the contours of a methodological undertaking in which the contributions of Geography and the critical analysis of space are inseparable. The analysis is delimited by the centrality of labor within the scope of the structural crisis, where the content of the crisis—as excess—confronts form (materiality) and reflects a dismantling of stable and collective sociability, reaffirming the space of fragmentation and maximum individualization. At its core, two trends mirror the spatiality of the crisis: the first defined by the intercontinental mobility of labor, the second centered on transformations within the digital sphere. This leads to a state of dehumanization, in which contradictions continuously strain space. On the one hand, protectionism increased xenophobia at the globe’s most mobilized borders. On the other, inter-capitalist competition mirrors the utmost globalization of capital, which tends to be stateless.
Este artículo propone una investigación profunda sobre las implicaciones de las transformaciones productivas en el sector bancario y su impacto directo en el deterioro de la salud de los trabajadores. Al explorar cambios en el entorno laboral, examinamos cómo estas transformaciones influyen en la salud del trabajador, señalando nuevos patrones de desgaste, especialmente en relación con trastornos mentales relacionados con el trabajo. Partiendo de un enfoque marxista y crítico, a través de una revisión bibliográfica interdisciplinaria y la investigación de datos estadísticos sobre empleo en la categoría bancaria y ausencias relacionadas con la seguridad social, analizamos la relación entre las crecientes demandas de productividad y los desafíos enfrentados por los profesionales del sector. Los resultados destacan una correlación entre los cambios en el entorno laboral y el aumento de casos de enfermedad, vinculados a una estrategia gerencial de manejo del sufrimiento humano.
This text seeks to reflect upon the tensions of federalism and the face of old/new Brazilian authoritarianism, starting from the violence necessary to the process of capitalist accumulation, as well as the historical consequences that led to the scission between the possibility of producing the livelihood and the land. Producing a separation that establishes legal-political and institutional frameworks that order the production of space-time, inherent to the needs that the globalization of capitalist accumulation requires for such arrangements, the sociometabolism of capital inserted and strengthened federalism – and the organically linked authoritarianism – in the matrix of the social and territorial division of labor. It also reflects upon the origins of federalism, as well as its historical specificities in Brazil, and ends by seeking to reflect upon this context in contemporary times.
This article analyzes the incorporation of Industry 4.0 technologies in the eucalyptus, pulp, and paper agribusiness in Mato Grosso do Sul, focusing on the operations of the company Suzano Papel e Celulose. Using a geographical approach in dialogue with Marxist Dependency Theory, the text explores the limits and problems of adopting and using these new technologies in a sector focused mainly on pulp exports. At the same time, the text highlights the impacts of this process on the organization of the production and territorial process in the state, focusing on the role of outsourced workers. Furthermore, the text highlights the relationship between the Brazilian State and agribusiness and some of the strategies between both to expand and intensify initiatives to expand the use of 4.0 technologies in agriculture. Based on sources such as business reports, news articles, government and private data, among others, the article concludes that, although technological innovations increase productivity and production, they tend to intensify territorial control by monoculture/exporting agribusiness, reinforce the role of technological dependence under the control of foreign capital in the “central” economies and contribute to maintaining the overexploitation of the workforce through indiscriminate outsourcing promoted among the main corporations in the sector, such as Suzano.
