O cultivo do dendê na empresa Agropalma: trabalho degradante e precarizado

Abstract

The present research aims, based on an analysis of the case law of the Regional Labor Court of the 8th Region and the Superior Labor Court, investigate the degrading work in oil palm cultivation in Agropalma company in the State of Pará, chosen for being one the precursor of plant cultivation in the region. The methodology was the literature, including books, periodicals and other legal publications, which gave support to the theoretical analysis of the case law of both the courts in the period between 2009 and 2014. The time frame noted the consolidation of cultivation palm by Agropalma. Procedural data were collected in the collections of the 8th Region of the Regional Court, the Superior Labor Court, the Ministry of Labor (MPT) and non-governmental organizations in official ments. Before the jurisprudential analysis, we proceeded to a review on oil palm cultivation in the State of Pará and sought to demonstrate how the capitalist system of production is crucial to the existence of degrading work. After, he tried to explain the working conditions in oil palm cultivation by Agropalma, both through its own employees, as through outsourced labor. It was concluded specific analysis of selected decisions, all involving the cultivation of palm oil by Agropalma, there is use of degrading labor, according to the understanding of the TRT of the 8th Region and the TST, which should be fought.