Social relations in the cultivation of tobacco

Abstract

This study is the social relations in tobacco cultivation. By social relations is understood those that exist, specifically, in capitalist society, which defines form and type of production material and non-material, separating the labor and the capital. Is the category workforce that reveals the nature of social relations. Large quantity of tobacco produced puts the question: how social relations determined the immediate spending work on tobacco cultivation, the technological innovations and changes there in to introduced and prescribed practices for growing, managed by fumicultor? For this study were collected information on the websites of the tobacco companies and associations of tobacco. The methodology used consisted of visits to nine properties, in order to do observations in loco in work situation, accompanied with dialogues collected with growers and with producers and with two retired tobacco instructors. Were investigated the immediate work in tobacco spent of the fumicultor in the sow, transplantation, growth, leaf collection, cure and classification. It was concluded that the technological innovations introduced in cultivation, specifically, the mechanization of crop part, caused the specialization of tasks and the objectification of labor; however, the dominion over the total knowledge of tobacco remained in the mind of the producer.