Workers’ experiences on urban occupations in Uberlândia (MG)

Abstract

This article seeks to highlight the ways in
which workers, who have occupied land for housing
construction in Uberlândia (MG) between
the years 2000-2012, experienced some conditions
and productive relations. We discuss certain interpretations
of the “struggle for the city”, the “struggle
for urban reform”, the “struggle” itself for a
“better life” or yet their “only alternative of life”,
in the attempt to explain the direct action of these
workers. From dimensions established between
housing, employment and struggle, we locate subjects
as agents of the ways they handle their own
experiences and how they elaborate discourses
about their own understanding on economy, politics,
community and justice.