Perceptions of time and work: disputes among poor rural dwellers in the far north of Goiás over their ways of living - 1860 to 1920

Abstract

This article investigates the arguments on the time between poor-from the backwoods and too many social groups in the northern extreme of Goiás between the decades of 1860 and 1920. When the tension was inspired in the Social History understood in his most spacious sense as a field of relations and class struggles, search problematizar between the customary ways of conceiving and “to survive the time” of the poor backwoodsmen, the practices of domination of the local farmers and the politics of disciplinarização of the work promoted by the province / state of Goiás. While treading this way to investigation it pointed what in this region, at least up to the decade of 1930, maintained certain integration between life and work, in spite of, already from ends of the century XIX, this articulation came between different times suffering strong pressure.