History, Work and Political Memory. Rural Workers, Social Conflict and fear in the Amazon (1970-1980)

Authors

  • Regina Beatriz Guimarães Neto Department of History and Postgraduate Program at the Federal University of Pernambuco

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5007/1984-9222.2014v6n11p129

Keywords:

Amazon, social conflicts, workers, civil-military dictatorship

Abstract

This article presents the research results on multiple forms of labor in the Amazon under the aegis of government policies in civil-military regime launched in Brazil in 1964. The article embraces two strategies of analysis: 1- the
social conflicts in the Amazon related to the policies and government institutions whose main interest was to control the land occupation occupied by the workers; 2- the importance of several records that witness violence against workers and the occurrences of conflicts in Araguaia in the area covered by the Prelature of São Félix do Araguaia.

Author Biography

Regina Beatriz Guimarães Neto, Department of History and Postgraduate Program at the Federal University of Pernambuco

Department of History and Postgraduate Program at the Federal University of Pernambuco

Published

2014-08-14

How to Cite

GUIMARÃES NETO, Regina Beatriz. History, Work and Political Memory. Rural Workers, Social Conflict and fear in the Amazon (1970-1980). Revista Mundos do Trabalho, Florianópolis, v. 6, n. 11, p. 129–146, 2014. DOI: 10.5007/1984-9222.2014v6n11p129. Disponível em: https://periodicos.ufsc.br/index.php/mundosdotrabalho/article/view/1984-9222.2014v6n11p129. Acesso em: 8 jan. 2026.

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