Perfil da mão-de-obra no setor sucroalcooleiro: tendências e perspectivas / Profile of labor in the sugar-alcohol sector: trends and prospects

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DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2009

RESUMO

The sugar cane industry has been through profound changes in recent years, with significant impacts on the organization sector and the business strategies. Apart from changes in market structure, changes in the production process had important impacts on the labor market. The ban on the method of burning sugar cane, with the consequent adoption of mechanization of cutting and planting, has caused a reduction in labor-intensive agriculture and demand for new occupations in the sector. With the mechanization it was possible to obtain significant gains in production, resulting in the exclusion of workers in the production process and changes in the profile of the new workers needed. In addition to mechanization, the sectors own expansion into new productive areas, mechanized already, has sued largest number of qualified workers, causing greater competition for this labor. We must know better this profile of workers inserted in the production of sugar cane, it is important to understand the evolution of occupations in this sector and review the changes, according to the new technological standard and according to the new phase of expansion by which the industry is going through. With this frame of reference, this work investigated the changes in the labor market and the new profile of rural labor required in the sugar cane industry. The main results of this research are that there should be a strong initiative for the qualification of the workforce, to meet the demands of the sector, and there should be a formal policy with the participation of public and private initiative, for replacement of rural labor, due to mechanization. Besides mechanization, the current international economic crisis has also caused lay off of labor in the sector, which increases the importance of the subject treated in this study. These initiatives, which are already being made by enterprises on a small scale should be structured so that the industry can balance the lack of available qualified labor and the increasing resignations of rural workers. This is an equation which alternative for solution is the qualification and requalification of the workforce. The creations of formal mechanisms of the sector and of the public politics are the key to resolving this issue.

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indústria sucro-alcooleira mão-de-obra qualificação profissional labor market sugar-alcohol industry labor mercado de trabalho professional qualification

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