Dados é uma das principais e mais longevas publicações nas ciências sociais no Brasil. Criada em 1966, divulga trabalhos inéditos e inovadores, oriundos de pesquisa acadêmica, de autores brasileiros e estrangeiros. Editada pelo IESP-UERJ, é seu objetivo conciliar o rigor científico e a excelência acadêmica com ênfase no debate público a partir da análise de questões substantivas da sociedade e da política.
Dados n. 15 Rio de Janeiro 1977
Resumo
This paper analyzes the nature and scope of the changes which have been taking place in Brazil's agrarian structure since 1920, as well as the effects of these changes on the country's rural population, particularly as regards relations between the peasants and the more affluent local merchants. Based on a case study of the Brazilian Northeast, the author challenges the theory that the country's agricultural backwardness is due to a typical capitalistic process of excessive concentration of land ownership. He points out that the relative decline of large-scale commercial agriculture and the increased availability of land for the peasant workers have fostered the growth, in unprecedented numbers, of scattered family-operated rural production units. However, the social isolation of these independent producers, and their lack of both technical sophistication and direct access to the market and the local decision-making organizations, have made them dependent on the more powerful local merchants and precluded the rise of a dominant group from within their own ranks. According to the author, it is the resulting subordinate position of the Brazilian peasant vis-à-vis the national socio-economic and political structures which accounts, to a peat extent, for Brazil's continuing agricultural crisis.
Os Novos Padrões de Controle e Dominação no Campo: Mudança e Continuidade no Nordeste
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