Working relationships in mechanized agriculture : the soy bean monoculture in Goiás

Abstract

The dynamics of the economy and the international division of the work stimulated a group of busisnesspeople to invest in agriculture, aiming to increase the performance of brazilian commodities in foreign markets, and to enhance the development of an industrial financial support in Brazil. This process changed social production relations, downsizing working positions in as an immediate result of the large use of high tech ways to improve its production. The newest financial suppliers promoted regional needs due to the fact that the financial capital does not homogeneize its lands, developing contradictory geographical effects. The process which envolves the monocultural soy bean plantation in Goiás lays on the geographical and social details of the particular agricultural mechanization in the state. Large plantations whose object result in even largest harvests, which in the end transform country working and social relationships.